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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Conway's game of LIFE
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Date: Mon, 19-May-86 05:05:16 EDT
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A good reference to LIFE:

	Berlekamp, Elwyn R ; Conway, John H ; Guy, Richard K
	Winning Ways II: Games in Particular
	Academic Press    1982      

The last chapter is devoted to the proof that LIFE is universal.
The rest of the book is worth reading anyway.  You will learn why
E R Berlekamp is the world's greatest Dots-and-Box player, for
example.

A good reference to cellular automata:

	Farmer, Doyne ; Toffoli, Tommaso ; Wolfram, Stephen ; (editors)
	Cellular Automata: Proceedings
	North-Holland    1984

The latter is a reprint of Physica D Volume 10D (1984) Nos 1&2.
Mostly technical, with interest in physical applications, but the
article by Gosper on how to high speed compute LIFE is quite
intriguing and readable.

Also, Martin Gardner occasionally had an update after his original
article.  His newest book, "Life, Wheels, and other Mathematical
Amusements" (???), reprints the latest.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720