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A New Kind of Science
Stephen Wolfram

Wolfram Media, 2002 - 1192 pages

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A New Kind of Computer Art?

A very large book of wonderful mathematically generated complexity reduced to simplicity, such as "cellular automata". If I were to reduce it down to a singular cellular automaton, I would call it "A New Kind of Computer Art", and watch the permutations in a new kind of life-science game evolve, like "The Game of Life".

But is it truly a "new kind of science"? I would let the next reader decide. But is it Art? Or is it Mathematical Art? That I will decided when I finish the other half of this delightful magical mathematical voodo computer art book. Wish you included more color.

Nice job Wolfram! Much fun read too. :)


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An Extraordinary Compendium of Research Notes

So much has been written, there is little left to add, nevertheless... Wolfram set out to find the underlying set of axioms that define all "Type 4" sets of axioms, the sets that give rise to complexity. Finding that defining set of axioms, if that's even possible, would have been an extraordinary accomplishment, but he could not crack the code. The fact that he was unable to make any progress at all is perhaps revealing about the nature of such sets of axioms. All he was left to do was to publish his research notes. He may have credited himself with more than he accomplished, but he has compiled an extraordinary compendium of notes.


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Big, Beautiful and Formidable

I received A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram in July 2002. It sits on a shelf in a place of honor. Occasionally, I take it down and open it as one would an expensive Bible. Someday, I'll really study it. Until then I love its feel, its heft, its marvelous and painstaking creation. It promises much--almost like the Bible promising eternal life. I bought it again as a gift for a young man just graduating from the University of Memphis in Computer Science. He's already deep into its pages. I envy him in a way. Perhaps he'll explain it to me. Not that I need any explanation. With faith I already know it is worthy of eternal life on my top shelf.


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Excellent

This book makes you thing, of matters that you thought that are not explainable. This is accomplished by illustrating simple rules, that could actually makde our world!

It's not "a New Kind of Science". It's rather "Science of the World"


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This long-awaited work from one of the world's most respected scientists presents a series of dramatic discoveries never before made public. Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments---illustrated in the book by striking computer graphics---Wolfram shows how their unexpected results force a whole new way of looking at the operation of our universe.

Wolfram uses his approach to tackle a remarkable array of fundamental problems in science: from the origin of the Second Law of thermodynamics, to the development of complexity in biology, the computational limitations of mathematics, the possibility of a truly fundamental theory of physics, and the interplay between free will and determinism.

Written with exceptional clarity, and illustrated by more than a thousand original pictures, this seminal book allows scientists and non-scientists alike to participate in what promises to be a major intellectual revolution.


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