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Title: Cellular Automata and Complexity by Stephen Wolfram ISBN: 0-201-62664-0 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Nice coverage of Wolframs published work
Comment: This is a nice collection of wolframs work on cellular automata (which first appeared as a number of papers in various physics journals). It is a nice coverage of cellular automata, but it would have been nice to give more credit to von Neuman for his pioneering work in cellular automata theory.
There is also an annoying habit for all of his work to concentrate on deterministic cellular automata, and the mathematics is constrained to this. Recent work has indicated that the origin of complexity in our universe is from random sources that are preserved.. not that the complexity all came from the initial conditions.
It is especially interesting to note in his book how the different rules of cellular automata play out to create varying degrees of complexity. It takes a very specific rule set indeed to allow for interesting complex behaviors to show up, as evinced by the long search Conway undertook to discover "life".
Hopefully Wolfram will comment on the recent research that indicates that complexity is introduced into our universe through nondeterministic phenomena. He also should have presented Fredkins ideas about reversible computation to more fully flush out the relationship between cellular automata, computability and reversibility.
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Title: A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram ISBN: 1579550088 Publisher: Wolfram Media, Inc. Pub. Date: 14 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: A New Kind of Science: A New Kind of Science Explorer bundle by Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research Inc. ISBN: 1579550207 Publisher: Wolfram Media, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $95.00 |
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Title: Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo Barbasi ISBN: 0452284392 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Modeling Nature: Cellular Automata Simulations With Mathematica by Richard J. Gaylord, Kazume Nishidate ISBN: 0387946209 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: The Complexity of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod ISBN: 0691015678 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 18 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.12 |
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