Stephen Wolfram - A new kind of science

[alan2here]

Stephen Wolfram - A new kind of science

http://www.wolframscience.com/

 

You can view it online. I have read much of this book and love it.

 

This book is about cellular automation. Normally this is done in 2D for example with the famous conways life and focus is on patterns that can be built in one set of rules, however this book focuses mainly on 1D automations and all the different rules instead.

 

My choppy mathematics education normally makes this sort of thing hard. Perhaps that I am a computer programmer who loves such things and regally builds abstractly and complex programs helps, however I suspect that my understanding of this is more to do with the way the book introduces the topic so nicely and gradually flows though it from the basics to the more difficult. I think most people would understand this book and, while it can be somewhat overwordy if you have any interest in mathematics, fractals or logic it is well worth the read.

[r_bo_99]

If you don't want to plow through the whole book (it's long!) there's a nice introduction to Cellular Automata in Wolfram's talk, "The Biomedical Implications of a New Kind of Science"

 

Then again, it might be better to talk about the existence of God, it seems like we're nearing a resolution on that topic.

[alan2here]

Thats great :¬) TY for the resource.