Thank you very much indeed for this clear and well-documented answer.
It seems obvious that we cannot attribute the construction of a universal machine to a single person.
What stroke me when I discovered the article by Wainwright is that it does not attribute the construction to Conway and, on the ...
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Who proved the universality of the GoL ?
Hello everyone,
I am writing an article from the French online magazine Interstices : https://interstices.info/
I would like to know who proved that the Game of Life is Turing-universal.
Until recently I thought that the proof was first published in Winning ways , vol. 4 by Berlekamp, Conway & Guy ...
I am writing an article from the French online magazine Interstices : https://interstices.info/
I would like to know who proved that the Game of Life is Turing-universal.
Until recently I thought that the proof was first published in Winning ways , vol. 4 by Berlekamp, Conway & Guy ...