nLab Conway's game of life

Contents

Idea

The “game of life” is due to John H. Conway, first discussed in print by:

Martin Gardner, The fantastic combinations of John Conway’s new solitaire game “life”, Scientific American 223 (October 1970) 120-123 [pdf, web]

Review:

Proof of omniperiodicity:

Nico Brown, Carson Cheng, Tanner Jacobi, Maia Karpovich, Matthias Merzenich, David Raucci, Mitchell Riley, Conway’s Game of Life is Omniperiodic [arXiv:2312.02799]
The Physics arXiv Blog, Mathematicians Prove the “Omniperiodicity” of Conway’s Game of Life (Dec 2024)

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