Stephen Wolfram's A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE
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- Subject: [mg34298] Stephen Wolfram's A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE
- From: Jean Buck <jeanb at wolfram.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 04:10:11 -0400 (EDT)
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As of today, after nearly eleven years of work, Stephen Wolfram's book A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE (http://www.wolframscience.com) has been published, and should start to be available at all major bookstores. See http://www.wolframscience.com/order for purchasing information. (The book has been at #1 on the amazon.com bestseller list.) Over the course of this week there is expected to be a fair amount of media coverage of the book (there will be pointers on http://www.wolframscience.com). This past Saturday there was an article in the New York Times; yesterday one in Time magazine. The June issue of WIRED, now on newsstands, has a longer article. Doing the diverse kinds of research needed for the development of A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE was part of Stephen Wolfram's original motivation for creating Mathematica. And now A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE is an important illustration of what can be done with Mathematica. The book contains nearly a thousand images created with Mathematica. The main text is written to be accessible to a general audience. But the last third of the book---which consists of historical and technical notes---includes nearly 800 Mathematica programs used to implement the ideas and discoveries in the book. These programs can be downloaded (together with examples) from http://www.wolframscience.com/nks/programs. In addition to their scientific value, they serve as prime examples of Mathematica programming.