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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics—Stephen Wolfram Writings

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Follow Stephen Wolfram's evolution of research on the 2nd Law from early interest as a 12-year-old to his current findings in the Wolfram Physics Project. View a large collection of images of early and published works.

Contents Top When I Was 12 Years Old... Becoming a Physicist Statistical Mechanics and Simple Programs Computational Irreducibility and Rule 30 Where Does Randomness Come From? Hydrodynamics, and a Turbulent Tale Getting to the Continuum The Second Law in A New Kind of Science The Physics Project-and the Second Law Again Discovering Class 4 The End of a 50-Year Journey Appendix: The Backstory of the Book Cover That Started It All Notes & Thanks A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics Now available in hardback and on Kindle: The Second Law: Resolving the Myste

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