Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 25, 2025

A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-like-shape-always-lands-the-same-side-up-20250625
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381297

* tetrahedron: simplest Platonic solid
* mathematicians made one that’s stable only on one side
* confirms decades-old conjecture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid

#math #polyhedra #tetrahedron #balance #JohnConway #PlatonicSolids

A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up | Quanta Magazine

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture.

Quanta Magazine
Sci-books.comApr 28, 2025
Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, 290) 3rd Edition by John Conway (PDF)
Author: John Conway
File Type: PDF
Download at https://sci-books.com/sphere-packings-lattices-and-groups-grundlehren-der-mathematischen-wissenschaften-290-3rd-edition-0387985859/
#Algebra, #JohnConway
Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, 290) 3rd Edition by John Conway (PDF) | sci-books.com

David GraylessApr 23, 2025
Cosmic Variance was a collaborative #weblog discussing physics, #astrophysics, and other topics, written by #JoAnneHewett, #MarkTrodden, #SeanCarroll, #RisaWechsler, #JulianneDalcanton, #CliffordJohnson, #JohnConway, and Daniel Holz. It was the successor to Carroll's earlier blog Preposterous Universe, which began in early 2004 and ran through much of 2005. The blog's name came from the #cosmology concept of #cosmicVariance.
Show threadthe roamerMay 6, 2024

@neauoire

Yeah, such a witty and warmhearted portrait of a warmhearted true mathematician. There are many recorded lectures and interviews with the man around, all worth listening to.

I was about 10 when Conway's Life became widely known, and it got me. I spent days on end filling graph paper with experimental Life evolutions (no computers then, of course). I once tried to understand his On Numbers and Games but failed. His little textbook on Automata is lovely. A great man.

#JohnConway

Norobiik @[email protected]Apr 14, 2024

This #CellularAutomata game has since become known as Conway's #GameOfLife and famous for the extraordinary complexity that emerges within it. This #ComputationalUniverse is home to beacons that flash, pulsars that beat time and "gliders" and "spaceships" that fly across the computational sky. #JohnConway

Mathematicians Prove the "Omniperiodicity" of Conway's Game of Life
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/mathematicians-prove-the-omniperiodicity-of-conways-game-of-life

Mathematicians Prove the "Omniperiodicity" of Conway's Game of Life

A problem that has long been a focal point of research for the famous Game of Life, has finally been solved.

Discover Magazine
tripuAug 17, 2023

Reading about really intelligent people like #JohnConway makes one feel minuscule.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-conway-solved-mathematical-problems-with-his-bare-hands-20200420/

John Conway Solved Mathematical Problems With His Bare Hands

The legendary mathematician, who died on April 11, was curious, colorful and one of the greatest problem-solvers of his generation.

Quanta Magazine
Jim Donegan 🎵 ✅Feb 5, 2023

How '#ParticleLife# #Emerges from #Simplicity

"Particle Life' is a very simple particle #System. The simulation shows the emergence of incredibly beautiful life-like structures from rudimentary rules."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4YirERTVF0&ab_channel=TomMohr

#Emergence #Math #Maths #Mathematics #Rules #PhaseTransition #PhaseTransitions #Science #Evolution #TomMohr #GameOfLife #TheGameOfLife #JohnConway

How Particle Life emerges from simplicity

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RanaldCloustonDec 18, 2022
#FinishedReading a biography of #JohnConway by @sioroberts while laid up sick in bed. To be frank, Conway is a rather full-on and exhausting character to spend a full book with while under the weather, but the book gives a great sense of his key ideas (not just Life, which he grew to resent), particularly in the search for finite simple sporadic groups, his style, and millieu. #AmReading
Ste CookDec 17, 2022

Infinitely recursive Conway’s Game of Life. https://oimo.io/works/life/

#GameOfLife #JohnConway

Life Universe

André OurednikNov 10, 2022

Une belle vidéo d'#Arte revient sur les automates cellulaires John von Neumann et de John Conway, et ses implication pour la réflexion sur le vivant, le déterminisme et l'aléatoire de l'univers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKgAaZ7a5Bs

#CellularAutomata #GameOfLife #JohnConway #JohnVonNeumann

Le jeu de la vie | Voyages au pays des maths | ARTE

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