weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener) (05/19/86)
I'm directing followups to net.games only. 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