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Book Information
Author(s):
Stephen Wolfram
Title:
A new kind of science
Additional book information:
Wolfram Media, Inc.,
Champaign, IL,
2002,
xiv+1197,
$44.95,
1-57955-008-8
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- M. Drosnin, The Bible Code, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1998.
- [FOU]
- J. Fourier, The Analytical Theory of Heat, G. E. Stechert & Co., New York, 1878. MR 6:177e
- [GAU]
- C. F. Gauss, Disquisitiones Arithmeticæ, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1966. MR 33:5545
- [HAW]
- S. Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell, Bantam Books, New York, 2001.
- [HUB]
- L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics, Bridge Publications, Los Angeles, CA, 1989.
- [JUN]
- C. G. Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connectivity Principle, Pantheon Books, 1955.
- [KUR]
- R. Kurzweil, Reflections on Stephen Wolfram's ```A New Kind of Science'', http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0464.html?printable=1.
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- Lin Yutang, ed., The Wisdom of Laotse, The Modern Library, New York, 1948.
- [NEW]
- A. Koyre and I. B. Cohen, eds., Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica,
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- H. O. Peitgen and D. Saupe, eds., The Science of Fractal Images, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1988. MR 92a:68145
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Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Steven
G.
Krantz
Affiliation:
Washington University
Email:
sk@math.wustl.edu
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
40
(2003),
143-150.
MSC
(2000):
Primary 68Q80, 00A69
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-02-00970-9
PII:
S 0273-0979(02)00970-9
Posted:
October 17, 2002
Copyright of article:
Copyright
2002,
American Mathematical Society
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