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:Bibliography.
Elwyn Berelkamp, John Conway, and Richard Guy
Winning Ways, volume 2
Academic Press
New York, 1982
ISBN 0-12-091102-7
Chapter 26, "What is Life?," is very concise but outlines the
essence of LIFE, particular with its sketch of how to construct a universal
cellular automaton.
David J. Buckingham
Some Facts of Life
Byte
December, 1978
A readable summary of LIFE, with samples of several interesting
configurations. The same issue of Byte magazine has other articles also
dealing with LIFE.
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Martin Gardner
Mathematical Games
Scientific American
223 no. 4 pp. 120-123 (October 1970)
223 no. 5 p. 118 (November 1970)
223 no. 6 p. 114 (December 1970)
224 no. 1 p. 108 (January 1971)
224 no. 2 pp. 112-117 (February 1971)
224 no. 3 pp. 108-109 (March 1971)
224 no. 4 pp. 116-117 (April 1971)
225 no. 5 pp. 120-121 (November 1971)
226 no. 1 p. 107 (January 1972)
233 no. 6 (December 1975)
The series of articles through most people gained their awareness
of LIFE and a chronicle of some of the advances in understanding it.
Martin Gardner
A series of columns in Scientific American, reprinted in
Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements
Freeman, 1983
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Brian Hayes
Computer Recreations
(The cellular automaton offers a model
of the world and a world unto itself)
Scientific American
March 1984, pages 10-16
A recent account of cellular automaton research.
William Poundstone
The Recursive Universe
William Morrow and Company, Inc.
New York, 1985
ISBN 0-688-03975-8
An interesting book, whose chapters alternate between a progressive
factual account of LIFE, and some philosophical speculations about the nature
of things.
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Kendall Preston, Jr. and Michael J. B. Duff
Modern Cellular Automata
Plenum Press
New York, 1984
ISBN 0-306-451737-5
An account of work on cellular automata and image processng techniques
whose chapter 12, "Patterns of Growth," is devoted to Conway's LIFE plus a
couple of other variants.
Stephen Wolfram
Statistical Mechanics of Cellular Automata
Reviews of Modern Physics 55 604-644 (1983)
A very technical analysis of possible transition rules in cellular
automata of one dimension.
Stephen Wolfram, J. Doyne Farmer and Tommaso Toffoli, eds
Cellular Automata: Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop
Physica D, vol 10D, Nos 1 and 2, January 1984
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