A New Kind Of Science

This penultimate volume contains numerous original elegant and surprising resu... This penultimate volume contains numerous original elegant and surprising results in 1-dimensional cellular automata. Perhaps the most exciting if not shocking new result is the discovery that only 82 local rules out of 256 suffice to predict the time... more

This invaluable volume ends the quest to uncover the secret recipes for predic... This invaluable volume ends the quest to uncover the secret recipes for predicting the long-term evolution of a ring of identical elementary cells where the binary state of each cell during each generation of an attractor (i.e. after the transients had... more

It is clear that computation is playing an increasingly prominent role in the ... It is clear that computation is playing an increasingly prominent role in the development of mathematics as well as in the natural and social sciences. The work of Stephen Wolfram over the last several decades has been a salient part in this phenomenon... more

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Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully c... Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

When Stephen Wolfram s groundbreaking A New Kind of Science was published in 2... When Stephen Wolfram s groundbreaking A New Kind of Science was published in 2002 its exploration and analysis of the computational universe of simple programs launched a scientific revolution. Twenty years later the ideas and results of the book have... more

Challenging the traditional mathematical model of scientific description a sci... Challenging the traditional mathematical model of scientific description a scientist proposes a new dynamic computational approach that utilizes simple codes to generate patterns of ultimate complexity. more

Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the... Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history philosophy and social studies of science. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for... more

The notion of natural kinds has been central to contemporary discussions of me... The notion of natural kinds has been central to contemporary discussions of metaphysics and philosophy of science. Although explicitly articulated by nineteenth-century philosophers like Mill Whewell and Venn it has a much older history dating back to... more

The Earth: One-of-a-Kind Planet (Picture Book Science) ISBN-10 161930984X ISBN... The Earth: One-of-a-Kind Planet (Picture Book Science) ISBN-10 161930984X ISBN-13 9781619309845 Perdew Laura Illustrated edition 32 pages Publisher: Nomad Press Binding: Paperback A nonfiction picture book for ages 5 to 8 that explores the place we all... more

Some scientific categories seem to correspond to genuine features of the world... Some scientific categories seem to correspond to genuine features of the world and are indispensable for successful science in some domain; in short they are natural kinds. This book gives a general account of what it is to be a natural kind and puts... more

Features: *The product include the 83 individual element samples comprising th... Features: *The product include the 83 individual element samples comprising the periodic table. Some of the elements are excluded due to their rarity and radioactivity. *Technetium and Promethium are excluded due to their rarity and radioactivit. *The... more

Phase transitions are involved in phenomena ranging from the initial stages of... Phase transitions are involved in phenomena ranging from the initial stages of the creation of the Universe to the existence of biological objects. It is natural to as whether any phenomena analogous to phase transitions are possible in disordered... more