Letters to Martin Gardner on various mathematical games. While John Conway was an undergraduate at Cambridge University, he would write The Game of Life was first published in the Martin Gardner’s column in Octoberġ970 issue of Scientific American, resulting in the greatest number of letters from The basic Game of Life is very easy to implement in almost any computer language. The Game of Life generates what Wolfram has called ‘class 4’ cellular automata behaviour that is, behaviour which is neither completely random nor completely repetitive (Wolfram, 2002). There should be simple initial patterns that grow and change over some time, before coming to end in three possible ways: fading away completely (from overcrowding or becoming too sparse) settling into a stable pattern that remains unchanged thereafter, or entering an oscillating phase in which they repeat an endless cycle of two or more periods.
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