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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wolfram, Stephen. New kind of science. Champaign, IL : Wolfram Media, c2002 (OCoLC)626021825 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen Wolfram |
| ISBN: | 1579550088 9781579550080 071399116X 9780713991161 |
| OCLC Number: | 47831356 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xiv, 1197 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The foundations for a new kind of science -- The crucial experiment -- The world of simple programs -- Systems based on numbers -- Two dimensions and beyond -- Starting from randomness -- Mechanisms in programs and nature -- Implications for everyday systems -- Fundamental physics -- Processes of perception and analysis -- The notion of computation -- The principle of computational equivalence. |
| Responsibility: | Stephen Wolfram. |
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Abstract:
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 computational limitations of mathematics, the possibility of a truly fundamental theory of physics, and the interplay between free will and determinism.
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