Some thirty years prior to Conway’s Game of Life, in fact, Stanisław Ulam and John von Neumann explored the theory behind self-replicating machines. The idea was to find a simple set of rules which allowed the merger of two seemingly disconnected fields: Engineering and Biology. The mind behind this bizarre game was John Horton Conway, a brilliant British Mathematician fascinated by the exploration of Mathematics in its purest form: the recreational one.Ĭonway had carefully designed the rules behind this “game of life” with the intent of making its evolution unpredictable. Each square adjacent to exactly three pieces gives birth to a new piece. Likewise, every piece next to one or no pieces at all dies from isolation. Each piece surrounded by four or more pieces dies from overpopulation. Every piece surrounded by two or three other pieces survives for the next turn. A “zero-player game” with no winners or losers, which result is fully determined by the initial configuration of the pieces on the board.Ī player is only needed to advance the state of the game to the next turn-a “generation”-following three simple rules. But unlike Chess and Go, it requires no players. Like Chess and Go, Life is played with pieces on a board. That was going to become one of his most successful columns. In the October 1970 issue of Scientific American (below), Gardner talked about the “fantastic combinations” of this new solitaire game called “life”. “Life” gained popularity after appearing in a column written by Martin Gardner called “Mathematical Games”. I’m Alan Zucconi, and in this short documentary we will get lost in the endless complexity of a game so apparently simple that its creator called it “Life”. Like Chess and Go, sometimes complexity can hide in the most …unexpected places. Emergent behaviours often-well, emerge-from simple, discrete rules that have seemingly nothing to do with them. In reality, the more rules a system has, the more “constrained” it is. One of the most common misconceptions is that complex phenomena arise from complex rules.
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A Stephen Sondheim song from “Follies” would feel like familiar ground for Liza but Pet Shop Boys magic turns it alongside “Always On My Mind” (of which it has a slight feel) and “Go West” as one of their great covers. “Losing My Mind” is the hit single from the album, reaching number 6 in the UK charts. The song is bold and dramatic and it sets out what is going to follow superbly. There is, however, an epic orchestral sweep which accompanies Liza’s sterling performance. Opening track “I Want You Now” is one of the new Tennant and Lowe compositions and from the introduction you can tell we are in Pet Shop Boys territory with a strong electro feel. The album produced by Julian Mendelsohn and Pet Shop Boys contains ten tracks- three covers of songs associated with other artists, two tracks which had been previously released by the duo and five originals that Neil and Chris wrote especially for Liza. 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The soundtrack to the movie had made it to number 25 in her homeland (#13-UK) and a recording of her television special “Liza With A Z” which had also gone a long way to cement her into public consciousness had reached US#19, UK#9). Recording-wise she had never been as successful as one might think. Superb in her 1972 Oscar winning performance “Cabaret”, she became an unstoppable force, huge Broadway star and a household name somewhat outside of the commercial pop mainstream. Liza Minnelli was born a showbusiness legend. Neil Tennant, a huge Minnelli fan, straight away began writing songs that would be suitable for a woman in her 40’s keen to re-enter the youthful pop market and “Results” was the fabulous result. Minnelli was a big fan of their song “Rent” and so the deal was struck. This came to the attention of the duo’s manager Tom Watkins. In 1989 showbiz legend Liza Minnelli was telling her record company that she wanted to move away from the live Broadway -style albums and standards that had been her lifeblood and record something more contemporary. The experience had left them open to consider new collaborations. The whole Dusty project had been a fascinating one for Neil and Chris, from the painstaking way she liked to record to their bringing to a new generation one of the greatest British voices of all time. Significantly, they had also revitalised the career of 60’s singing legend Dusty Springfield with their UK & US number 2 collaboration “What Have I Done To Deserve This?” In 1989 Dusty was riding high again with their “Nothing Has Been Proved” a song about the very British sex and politics Profumo scandal which was taken from the movie “Scandal”. During this time they had scored three UK and one US number 1 singles, three big selling studio albums and one remix album. 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