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Conway's Game of Life

two-dimensional cellular automaton devised by J. H. Conway in 1970
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Conway's Game of Life
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Conway's Game of Life

Summary

Conway's Game of Life is a Life-like cellular automaton[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Conway's Game of Life is credited with the discovery of John Horton Conway[3].
  • Conway's Game of Life's instance of is recorded as Life-like cellular automaton[4].
  • life is named after Conway's Game of Life[5].
  • John Horton Conway is named after Conway's Game of Life[6].
  • Conway's Game of Life's Commons category is recorded as Game of Life[7].
  • October 1, 1970 marks the founding of Conway's Game of Life[8].
  • Conway's Game of Life was released on October 1970[9].
  • Conway's Game of Life's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Game of Life[10].
  • Conway's Game of Life's Commons gallery is recorded as Game of Life[11].
  • Conway's Game of Life's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/conways-game-of-life[12].
  • Conway's Game of Life's different from is recorded as Zhizn[13].
  • Conway's Game of Life's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[14].

Body

Definition and Type

Conway's Game of Life's instance of is recorded as Life-like cellular automaton[4].

Origins

Things named after include life[5], a type of property[15] and John Horton Conway[6], a mathematician[16], 1937–2020[17], of United Kingdom[18], awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society[19], specialised in group theory[20]. October 1, 1970 marks the founding of Conway's Game of Life[8].

Why It Matters

Conway's Game of Life has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2] It is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

Alan Hensel John Horton Conway

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . conwaylife.com. conwaylife.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . ibiblio.org. ibiblio.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [15] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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