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It was invented in the late 1960s by John Horton Conway, a celebrated English pure mathematician, and popularized by Martin Gardiner in his column in Scientific American in 1971.
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The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970.
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Conway is a British mathematician. He is the subject of the just-published (Oct. 2015) biography, <b>Genius at Play</b>, by Siobhan Roberts, herself a world-class mathematician. I highly recommend the book for both the technical and lay reader.
October 16, 2015