I am currently finishing a 1000-page work by mathematician Stephen Wolfram, “New Kind of Science”. I will write separately about this book, it is wildly interesting, and very different from anything I read before. I bought this tome — it is almost 10 cm thick, but the book is freely available online.
For today — just a fun fact — the author just really loves to mention the main idea of the book almost on every 20th page, almost with the same words. Well, okay, it’s relevant everywhere, but still. I quickly pulled out some excerpts.
The main idea is that the complexity of the world around us can be explained by simple rules, which are applied by a straightforward algorithm. Changes in the initial setup can reflect strongly in the final complexity — for example, in shapes or patterns.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 