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They missed the opportunity to call it 'Conway's Life of Games'! There are many open problems about Life that universality doesn't answer, such as whether ther
by OscarCunningham 5y ago
They missed the opportunity to call it 'Conway's Life of Games'!
There are many open problems about Life that universality doesn't answer, such as whether there exists an oscillator of every period. There was a problem posed by Conway himself that was solved just this year! https://cp4space.hatsya.com/2022/01/14/conway-conjecture-settled/ https://cp4space.hatsya.com/2022/01/14/conway-conjecture-set...
- mkl 5y agoYes. "Genius at Play" does fit very well though, as does the double meaning of "curious" in the subtitle "The curious mind of John Horton Conway".