# John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician | Siobhan Roberts

<http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/23/john-horton-conway-the-most-charismatic-mathematician-in-the-world>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

The long read: John Horton Conway is a cross between Archimedes, Mick Jagger and Salvador Dalí. For many years, he worried that his obsession with playing silly games was ruining his career – until he realised that it could lead to extraordinary discoveries

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