Ville Salo

Ville Salo
Born	Unknown
Residence	Finland
Nationality	Unknown
Institutions	University of Turku, Finland
Alma mater	Unknown

Ville Salo is a Life enthusiast who is an adjunct professor and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Turku, Finland.

In 2022, he and Ilkka Törmä solved the unique father problem in the positive, providing a still life that cannot be constructed from scratch by any means. At the same time, they solved a generalized version of the grandfather problem with the same pattern.

References

• Home Page-Ville Salo
• Univesity of Turku-Ville Salo

Patterns found by Ville Salo

A

• American Dream

G

• Generalized grandfather problem

U

• Unconstructible still life
• Unique father problem
• Unsynthesizable oscillator 1