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Another highly aesthetic, mostly fun book is Stephen Wolfram's New Kind of Science.
by Maro 18y ago
Another highly aesthetic, mostly fun book is Stephen Wolfram's New Kind of Science.
- tokenadult 18y agoI enjoyed reading most of ANKoS, but it is a very different book from the book under review. I trust a collection of articles edited by Timothy Gowers as a guide to the latest carefully considered ideas in mathematics much more than I trust Wolfram's interesting but idiosyncratic personal account of the foundations of mathematics. Here is a link to links to multiple reviews of A New Kind of Science. Some of the reviews are by quite eminent mathematicians. http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~eclark/ANKOS_reviews.html http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~eclark/ANKOS_reviews.html
- gjm11 18y agoCosma Shalizi's review is particularly good because (1) Shalizi knows a lot about the stuff Wolfram is writing about and (2) it is called "A rare blend of monster raving egomania and utter batshit insanity".