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Stephen Wolfram’s Science — Greg Egan

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F or the past eleven years, Stephen Wolfram has been labouring single-mindedly on a book that presents his ideas about the science of complexity. The result, an 1197-page, self-published behemoth entitled A New Kind of Science, finally hit the shops in May. Preceded by a great deal of hype, and followed by a fair amount of controversy, it has already sold out an initial print run of 50,000 and entered the non-fiction best seller lists. A second printing is underway. Wolfram is a 43-year-old scientist and entrepreneur, born in London and now living in the USA. He received a PhD in theoretical physics at the age of 20, and went on to work at a number of prestigious academic centres. In the early 1980s, he published several papers on the subject of cellular automata, or CAs. These are a kind of mathematical system, typically comprising squares laid out in one or two dimensions; individual squares, known as cells, can be in a variety of states, such as black or white, and they change accor

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