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Remembering the ‘Game of Life’
The English mathematician John Horton Conway passed away last week, due to COVID-19. He was 82. I’m afraid my memory of him doesn’t do him justice because, if nothing else, Conway resented that many people knew him only for inventing … Continue reading
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Tagged cellular automata, combinatorial game theory, Game of Life, Golly, John Horton Conway, mathematical games, puffer, puffer breeder, sphere packing, Turing complete, Turing completeness
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