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 ...

Programmers everywhere are familiar with Conway’s Game of Life: whether they’ve written a version themselves or simply seen the mesmerizing action resulting from the cellular automata, it’s a ...

John Horton Conway, the John von Neumann Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Emeritus at the University, died on Saturday, April 11 from complications arising from COVID-19. The ...

John Horton Conway, mathematician and creator of Game of Life, has died aged 82 of complications related to COVID-19. Princeton University announced the news today, where Conway was John von Neumann ...

John Horton Conway, the creator of one of the first computer games, has died at the age of 82. According to Princeton University, where he was part of the faculty, Conway died on April 11 in New ...

John Horton Conway, an English-born Princeton mathematician whose body of work ranged from the rigorously highbrow to the frivolously fun, earning him prizes and a reputation as a creative, ...

If maths is the only universal language, then John Horton Conway is among the few who can speak it perfectly. Unfortunately, Conway, a fellow of the Royal Society and a revered professor of Princeton ...

Editor’s note: The post has been updated to correct the description of the “Game of Life” Conway invented. A renowned Princeton University mathematician and professor, known for inventing the cellular ...

“Genius” is the biography of another mathematical genius, John Horton Conway. Conway was educated at Cambridge and taught there, sometimes barefoot, inventing “The Game of Life” in 1970, which ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from John Conway's Game of Life If you're unfamiliar, the game is based around the idea of "cellular automaton" where each "cell" or "block" on the… The ...

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