A 50-year-old mystery in Conway's Game of Life has just been solved. A pattern has been discovered that cannot be generated by anything except for itself — there's no way to procedurally build it within the ruleset.https://t.co/tahlUiD0u5pic.twitter.com/RaWzGQ7aos
An interesting story by @WilliamJBroad (a science writer I always enjoy reading). It's about a patron of pure mathematics who was fascinated by Fermat's Last Theorem, and who supported people and conferences that played a part in its solution. https://t.co/YcjL0IJRRy