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[shahar]

Not math. But, what is His father of Conway do?
What is to "...made a living playing cards."?
I don't understand the meaning.
(Sorry, that it is off-topic of the forum uses...)
in this text:

John Horton Conway, a ‘Magical Genius’ in Math, Dies at 82 (Published 2020)

He made profound contributions to number theory, coding theory, probability theory, topology, algebra and more — and created games from it all. He died of the coronavirus.

www.nytimes.com

 

[lev888]

Not math. But, what is His father of Conway do?
What is to "...made a living playing cards."?
I don't understand the meaning.
(Sorry, that it is off-topic of the forum uses...)
in this text:

John Horton Conway, a ‘Magical Genius’ in Math, Dies at 82 (Published 2020)

He made profound contributions to number theory, coding theory, probability theory, topology, algebra and more — and created games from it all. He died of the coronavirus.

www.nytimes.com

He was a professional card player - playing card games was his main source of income.

 

[Deleted member 4993]

There are many professional "bridge" players - those compete for prize money in competition. Of course then there are professional "poker" players and other "gambling enterprises".

 

[JeffM]

Not math. But, what is His father of Conway do?
What is to "...made a living playing cards."?
I don't understand the meaning.
(Sorry, that it is off-topic of the forum uses...)
in this text:

John Horton Conway, a ‘Magical Genius’ in Math, Dies at 82 (Published 2020)

He made profound contributions to number theory, coding theory, probability theory, topology, algebra and more — and created games from it all. He died of the coronavirus.

www.nytimes.com

A better site for this sort of question is another one where I tutor:

English Language Learners Stack Exchange

Q&A for speakers of other languages learning English

ell.stackexchange.com

Actually, I am much more effective at that site than this one.