Science
The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life – The New York Times
Fifty years on, the mathematician’s best known (and, to him, least favorite) creation confirms that “uncertainty is the only certainty.”
Life swiftly eclipsed Dr. Conways many other mathematical accomplishments, and he came to regard his missive to Mr. Gardner as the fatal letter.
The Game of Life motivated the use of cellular automata in the rich field of complexity science, with simulations modeling everything from ants to traffic, clouds to galaxies. More trivially, the game attracted a cult of Lifenthusiasts, programmers who spent a lot of time hacking Life that is, constructing patterns in hopes of spotting new Life-forms.
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