A New Kind of Science

A New Kind of Science

by Stephen Wolfram

4 mentors recommend this 1197 pages

This work 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 com

ISBN: 9781579550196

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Steve Jurvetson

Steve Jurvetson

Business & Entrepreneurship

"A series of epiphanies from the author and others that the world is really interesting when you look at iterative algorithms applied millions and billions of times."

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Science & Research

"This book is not a book, but a monument. I have been reading rules from it for 10 years."

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Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman

Media & Journalism

"Here's my conversation with @stephen_wolfram, computer scientist and physicist, who has inspired a generation of researchers with the beauty & power of computation and whose book A New Kind of Science first led me to fall in love with cellular automata:"

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