A New Kind of Science - Stephen Wolfram (Lecture)


	A New Kind of Science - Stephen Wolfram (Lecture)

Djiezes

4-11-2007 1:23 PM

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Djiezes says:

worth watching,

on cellular automata, complexity, randomness, nature, mathematics, science, biology, natural selection, networks, space-time, physics, causality, relativity, determinism, quantum mechanics, computational irreducibility, ...
(not necessarily in that order)

His book is freely available online: http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html

(see also The Nature of Code)

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