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Cellular Automata And Complexity: Collected Papers Paperback - 2002

by Stephen Wolfram

These original papers on cellular automata and complexity, some of which are widely known in the scientific community, provide a highly readable account of what has become a major new field of science, with important implications for physics, biology, economics, computer science, and many other areas.

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The second law of thermodynamics implies that isolated microscopically reversible physical systems tend with time to states of maximal entropy and maximal "disorder."

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  • Title Cellular Automata And Complexity: Collected Papers
  • Author Stephen Wolfram
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Third imp
  • Pages 608
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher CRC Press, MA, CA and NY
  • Date 2002-07-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780201626643 / 0201626640
  • Weight 2.09 lbs (0.95 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.92 x 7.21 x 1.12 in (22.66 x 18.31 x 2.84 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Computational complexity, Cellular automata
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93-40786
  • Dewey Decimal Code 511.3

About the author

Stephen Wolfram was born in England in 1959. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and received his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech at the age of twenty. Wolfram's early work in particle physics, cosmology and computer science earned him one of the first MacArthur awards. Wolfram began his work on the problem of complexity in 1981. And after writing the sequence of papers collected in this book, Wolfram founded the first research center and the first journal devoted to the study of complexity. Then in 1986, he formed Wolfram Research, Inc., and began the development of Mathematica. Released in 1988, Mathematica has become the standard software system for technical computation used by scientists, engineers, students and others around the world. Wolfram has been the recipient of many awards for science and business. He now divides his time between basic research and the leadership of his company.

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