LAHORE Pakistan Mathematical Society announces with sadness the death of Professor John H.Conway (1937 – 2020) due to COVID-19. He was John von Neumann Professor at Princeton University. He was also author/inventor of ‘The Game of Life’. He was an Emeritus Professor also at Cambridge. He is known for several contributions in Pure Mathematics. In Group Theory he founded three finite simple groups which are known as Conway Groups CO1, CO2 and CO3. They belong to a class of sporadic groups. He did doctorate from Princeton University under the supervision of Professor H. Devenport. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981. He received a number of awards, namely Berwick Prize, Polya Award, Steele Award, Nemmers Prize etc. for his outstanding contributions in several areas of Pure Mathematics. His jointly authored book with R.K.Guy entitled ‘The Book of Numbers’ reflects his supervisor’s influence on him as a Number Theorist. It is like a journey from a fascinating survey of number names, words and symbols to explanation of the new phenomenon of surreal numbers.—PR
