Rechnender Raum
by Konrad Zuse · first published 1969
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…work is summary or rehash of other extant (and often non-cited) material. There are often more thorough, more concise, and more lucid resources on cellular automata from other research; I'd cite Zuse's Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space) off the top of my head for a work that comes to many of Wolfram's conclusions several decades prior to Wolfram. In fact, a good strategy for becoming familiar with cellular automata…
on “Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers” ↗…(Plan Calculus). It was the first high-level non-von Neumann programming language to be designed for a computer." - "Calculating Space is the title of MIT's English translation of Konrad Zuse's 1969 book Rechnender Raum (literally: "space that is computing"), the first book on digital physics. Zuse proposed that the universe is being computed by some sort of cellular automaton or other discrete computing machinery, challenging…
on “Oppenheimer's recommendation letter for Richard Feynman” ↗Probably relevant for those interested: In 1969, Zuse suggested the concept of a computation-based universe in his book Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
on “Physicists To Test If Universe Is A Computer Simulation” ↗…for building the Z3 in 1941—the world's first functional programmable digital computer. Later in his career, he explored profound philosophical and theoretical ideas about the nature of the universe. Rechnender Raum (literally "Computing Space" or "Calculating Space") is the title of his groundbreaking 1969 book (published in the series Schriften zur Datenverarbeitung). In it, Zuse proposed that the entire universe…
on “New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis” ↗