Robert Wainwright
| Robert Wainwright | |
| Born | Unknown |
|---|---|
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | Unknown |
| Institutions | Iona College |
| Alma mater | Purdue University New York University |
Robert T. Wainwright is a mathematician who was involved with the advancement and popularization of Conway's Game of Life right from its start in the early 1970s. He has discovered dozens of well-known and important patterns including the emulators and the first known blinker puffer.
He has found several important oscillators, including the first known oscillators of periods 12 (dinner table), 21 (124P21), and 72 (two blockers hassling R-pentomino).
In the early 1970s, he published Lifeline, a newsletter devoted to discoveries about Life, and sometimes other similar cellular automata. Many of the original discoveries in Life were first published in Lifeline, and Lifeline served to foster much interest in Life. He was also one of the first people to enumerate all of the small still lifes; he extended the lists created by John Conway to include all still lifes up to and including 10 cells.
References
- Robert Wainwright at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page (Life Credits)
External links
- Faculty listing at Iona College's Department of Mathematics (archive from May 27, 2010)
- Conway’s Game of Life: Early Personal Recollections
Patterns found by Robert Wainwright
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B
- Baker's dozen
- Barge with very long tail
- Beehive at beehive
- Beehive at claw
- Beehive on table
- Beehive with hooked tail
- Beehive with nine
- Blinker puffer 1
- Blinkers bit pole
- Block on cap
- Block on cover
- Block on griddle
- Blocker
- Boat tie eater head
- Boat tie eater tail
- Boat tie long boat
- Boat tie long snake
- Broken elevener
- Bun with feather
- Bunnies
- By flops
C
- Canoe siamese snake
- Carnival shuttle
- Carrier bridge carrier
- Carrier bridge snake
- Carrier bridge table
- Carrier siamese canoe
- Carrier siamese hook-with-tail hook
- Carrier siamese hook-with-tail tail
- Carrier siamese shillelagh
- Carrier siamese tub with tail
- Carrier siamese very long snake
- Carrier tie ship
- Cauldron
- Cis-barge with nine
- Cis-block on long bookend
- Cis-boat amphisbaena
- Cis-boat trans-line tub
- Cis-boat with long³ tail
- Cis-carrier down on table
- Cis-carrier tie snake
- Cis-carrier up on table
- Cis-carrier-tie
- Cis-fuse with two tails
- Cis-long barge with tail
- Cis-long⁴ hook with tail
- Cis-mango with tail
- Cis-ship on table
- Cis-snake-tie
- Cis-tub with long⁴ tail
- Cis-very long hook with nine
- Claw at claw
- Claw siamese tub with cape
- Claw with boat with tail
- Claw with nine
- Cross
E
H
J
L
Q
S
T
- T-nosed p4
- Teardrop with cape
- Teardrop with claw
- Titanic toroidal traveler
- Trans-barge with nine
- Trans-block on long bookend
- Trans-boat amphisbaena
- Trans-boat trans-line tub
- Trans-boat with long³ tail
- Trans-carrier down on table
- Trans-carrier tie snake
- Trans-carrier up on table
- Trans-carrier-tie
- Trans-long barge with tail
- Trans-mango with tail
- Trans-ship on table
- Trans-snake-tie
- Trans-tub with long⁴ tail
- Trans-very long hook with nine
- Trice tongs
- Tub bend line tub
- Tub with long tail
- Tub with tail siamese snake
- Tub with tail with cape
- Tub with two down cis tails
- Tub with two down trans tails
- Tub with two up cis tails
- Tub with two up trans tails
- Tubber
- Tumbling T-tetson
- Twelve loop
- Twirling T-tetsons 2
- Two blockers hassling R-pentomino
- Two pre-L hasslers