> Is the tome A New Kind of Science worth reading? The best thing about ANKOS were the footnotes. The footnotes/appendices could have made a good popular book

> Is the tome A New Kind of Science worth reading? The best thing about ANKOS were the footnotes. The footnotes/appendices could have made a good popular book on the history and relationship of computation and physics, except for all of the gag-reflex-inducing Mathematica self-promotion. Here is an example from the first footnote I clicked on just now: "But in the so-called lambda calculus of Alonzo Church from around 1930 what were instead used were pure functions... of just the kind now familiar from Mathematica." https://wolframscience.com/nks/notes-11-12--lambda-calculus/ https://wolframscience.com/nks/notes-11-12--lambda-calculus/ The whole book is full of things like that.