[hamish_todd]

So, this may not actually have happened.

The confusing thing is that, today, John Sharp, also an elderly recreation mathematician, also died.

Currently the only source is the tweet above. We are not sure whether Colm has made a mistake. He did know John Horton Conway, but some people are mistaking his scientific american article, and the later guardian article, for an obit...

Terrible news if JHC is dead, and also terrible that John Sharp is dead. If not... will be weird for him waking up tomorrow to let people know that reports of his death are greatly exaggerated...

[foxyv]

Wikipedia has a few sources, may just be them all echoing from the same source, but it seems that a close friend is the source of one of the articles.

https://math.unm.edu/news-events/news/famous-british-mathema...

https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/mercer/obituaries/covid-19...

[scythe]

A valid concern, and sad news, but Colm's latest tweet isn't consistent with mistaken identity.

https://twitter.com/CardColm/status/1249088354857226242?s=20

[attrutt]

I'm hearing it's a mistake (I'm signing up just to share this, as a former assistant of his). But what I'm hearing could be wrong as well... in short, I would await an official press release from Princeton.

[ColinWright]

See my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22844444