IN THE YEAR 1970, JOHN HORTON CONWAY invented Life. Or more accurately, the Game of Life. Not the one where you spin the wheel and accumulate plastic kids, but a mathematical construct governing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

All Articles for. Conway's Game Of Life. 2D cellular automaton devised by J. H. Conway in 1970: cells, arranged in a square grid, are either alive or dead; a live cell with 2 or 3 ...

Fifty years on, the mathematician’s best known (and, to him, least favorite) creation confirms that “uncertainty is the only certainty.” “Life in Life,” from a short documentary on the Game of Life by ...

Before I get to the serious stuff, a quick story about John Conway, a.k.a. the “mathematical magician.” I met him in 1993 in Princeton while working on “The Death of Proof.” When I poked my head into ...

Cellular automata are discrete, lattice-based models in which simple local interactions give rise to intricate global behaviour. As a cornerstone of dynamical systems theory, these models have been ...