A New Kind Of Science

A mammoth book by Stephen Wolfram?, claiming that Cellular Automata? give us a new and revolutionary way to understand the world.

• isbn:1579550088
• http://www.wolframscience.com/
• Available online, various links from here: http://science.slashdot.org/science/04/02/06/1341210.shtml?tid=134&tid=188&tid=192

Reviews:

• http://www.math.usf.edu/~eclark/ANKOS_reviews.html
• Greg Egan Has Read A New Kind Of Science.
• http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0464.html?printable=1 (Ray Kurzweil)
• http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15762 (Steven Weinberg?)
• http://www.stephen-wolfram-new-kind-of-science.com/

Stephen Wolfram? is a former schoolfriend of Thea Logie's father (and recently donated a copy of 'A New Kind Of Science' to him). Once the two of them and another physicist went off to Cambridge in a Mini without a clear idea of how to get there...

A New Kind Of Science was researched using Wolfram's own proprietary software, Mathematica, but is actually pretty easy to replicate without Mathematica.

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