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Conway’s Life: four rules

Gosper’s glider gun (1970) was the first pattern found to grow forever: every thirty generations it fires another glider. Conway had offered fifty dollars for such a pattern, and paid.

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The Celestial Code · Chapter 4

Four Rules

On April 11, 2020, John Horton Conway died of COVID in a hospital in New Brunswick. He was eighty-two. The newspapers wrote: “The mathematician who invented the Game of Life has died.” His colleagues wrote: “One of the greatest minds in combinatorics has died” —…

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