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Cellular Automata And Complexity: Collected Papers 1st Edition
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- ISBN-100201626640
- ISBN-13978-0201626643
- Edition1st
- Publication dateFebruary 21, 1994
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions8.92 x 7.21 x 1.12 inches
- Print length608 pages
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- Publisher : CRC Press; 1st edition (February 21, 1994)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 608 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0201626640
- ISBN-13 : 978-0201626643
- Item Weight : 2.15 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.92 x 7.21 x 1.12 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,887,949 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,431 in Mathematical Logic
- #34,390 in Social Sciences (Books)
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Stephen Wolfram has had a unique trajectory in science, technology and business. Widely known for his discoveries in basic science and his groundbreaking 2002 book "A New Kind of Science," he has spent more than three decades building what is now Wolfram Language: the knowledge-based computer language that powers Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha and has contributed to countless inventions and discoveries, as well as to the education of several generations of students.
Wolfram was born in London and educated at Eton, Oxford and Caltech, earning his PhD in physics in 1979 at the age of 20. After a brief but distinguished academic career, he founded Wolfram Research in 1987 and as CEO has built it into one of the world’s most respected and innovative software companies, whose products are relied on by millions of people around the world.
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2012Back in the early 1980s Stephen Wolfram wrote a number of seminal papers that began the field of Cellular Automata. Yes, its origins do go back to Von Neumann and Ulam, but the subject only really took off as a field of scientific endeavor with this collected early work of Wolfram's. As such this is a very valuable historical collection where the reader can actually see the subject of CA being created and developed year by year. You can see, amongst other things, the unfolding of the four part classification scheme, the algebraic properties of CA, higher order CA, universal computation, and of course complexity.
John Conway's Game of Life cellular automaton which predates Wolfram by a decade is also mentioned - but for the most part Wolfram's own work takes center stage.
In the CA world, complexity evolves from a simple set of rules and this single notion has made CA a valuable tool in modelling a multitude of natural phenomena. It does not represent the end of mathematical modelling but represents another approach to viewing the world we live in. Interestingly, some of the models are virtually mathematics free and in some cases do a better job than the more traditional partial differentiation approach. As a bi-product with CA, you get a visual portrayal of how your model evolves with time. This visual aspect is one of the many attractions of the CA approach and so conspicuous in Wolfram's works.
Of course, the field of CA has itself evolved considerably from Wolfram's seminal beginnings. But if you want one reference work of how it all began then this is an excellent source.
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Baddel.DoesReviewed in Germany on November 1, 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars Buch vom Meister
Mag sein, dass Stephen Wolfram nicht der größte Mathematiker seiner Zeit ist, visionär ist er in jedem Fall und kaum ein Mathematiker hat diese "reine" Wissenschaft der Praxis näher gebracht. Dieses Buch ist quasi die Vorarbeit zu " A New Kind Of Science" und erlaubt so die Begleitung des Wissenschaftlers Wolfram.