Proof of Conway’s lost cosmological theorem
Authors:
Shalosh B. Ekhad and Doron Zeilberger
Journal:
Electron. Res. Announc. Amer. Math. Soc. 3 (1997), 78-82
MSC (1991):
Primary 05Axx
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S1079-6762-97-00026-7
Published electronically:
August 21, 1997
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Abstract: John Horton Conway’s Cosmological Theorem about sequences like 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211,…, for which no extant proof existed, is given a new proof, this time hopefully for good.
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Shalosh B. Ekhad
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Email:
ekhad@math.temple.edu
Doron Zeilberger
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Email:
zeilberg@math.temple.edu
Received by editor(s):
May 6, 1997
Published electronically:
August 21, 1997
Additional Notes:
Supported in part by the NSF
Communicated by:
Ronald Graham
Article copyright:
© Copyright 1997
American Mathematical Society
