A New Kind of Science
By: Stephen Wolfram
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Wolfram Media
Published: May 14, 2002
Place of publication: Champaign, IL
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1197
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Cellular automata; Computational complexity
Other titles: The NKS Book
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface                                          ix; title: 1 The Foundations for a New Kind of Science          1; title: 2 The Crucial Experiment                            23; title: 3 The World of Simple Programs                      51; title: 4 Systems Based on Numbers                         115; title: 5 Two Dimensions and Beyond                        169; title: 6 Starting from Randomness                         223; title: 7 Mechanisms in Programs and Nature                297; title: 8 Implications for Everyday Systems                363; title: 9 Fundamental Physics                              433; title: 10 Processes of Perception and Analysis             547; title: 11 The Notion of Computation                        637; title: 12 The Principle of Computational Equivalence       715; title: Notes                                           849; title: Index                                          1201