I know about it, I’ve seen videos of it, but I have no idea how it works, or why it’s important. I mainly don’t get why it’s become to infamous.
In: Mathematics
to quote the games creator talking about its significance https://youtu.be/R9Plq-D1gEk&t=418
“From my point of view, it wasnt real mathematics. It was flattering to have so many readers interested in it and so on, but I personally did not think that much of it.”
and later on “Its finshed. … Nothing that followed on it was just as interesting as the basic fact that this basic rules did exist. fairly simple, and has these astonishing properties, which wherent astonishing to me.”
In other words, no significance, its just an interesting set of rules that can do astonishing things.
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