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John Conway passed away this week. Even if you don’t know much about mathematics, you will probably know nearly everyone’s favorite cellular automata ruleset: Conway’s “Game of Life”. It’s so much a ...

Like many of us, [John Whittington] was saddened with the news that John Horton Conway passed away a little earlier this year, and in honor of his work, he added the Game of Life to a flip-dot display ...

The Game of Life is a key subset of the wider field of cellular automatons. This paragraph from the Wikipedia article on cellular automatons gives a pretty good description of where Conway's work fits ...

Discover the incredible (and hilarious) ways that video games can simulate evolution. From Conway’s ‘Game of Life’ to Evolution by Keiwan, we’ll look at how games and other simulations can reproduce ...

If maths is the only universal language, then John Horton Conway is among the few who can speak it perfectly. Unfortunately, Conway, a fellow of the Royal Society and a revered professor of Princeton ...

A long-standing mystery about repeating patterns in a two-dimensional mathematical game has been solved after more than 50 years with the discovery of two final pieces in the puzzle. The result is ...

John Horton Conway, mathematician and creator of Game of Life, has died aged 82 of complications related to COVID-19. Princeton University announced the news today, where Conway was John von Neumann ...