SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

For about 30 hours each in 2003 we pawed over A New Kind Of Science (ANKoS) by Stephen Wolfram

Here follows our executive take-home summary (or read A New Kind Of Poetry instead!)

1. Chapter one was introductory / setting the scene / inspiring a sense of expectation. Shock and awe.
2. ANKoS Chapter 2 - the crucial experiment
3. ANKoS Chapter 3 - the world of simple programs
4. ANKoS Chapter 4 - systems based on numbers
5. ANKoS Chapter 5 - two dimensions and beyond
6. ANKoS Chapter 6 - starting from randomness
7. ANKoS Chapter 7 - mechanisms in programs and nature
8. ANKoS Chapter 8 - implications for everyday systems
9. ANKoS Chapter 9 - fundamental physics
10. ANKoS Chapter 10 - mechanisms of analysis and perception
11. ANKoS Chapter 11 - the notion of computation
12. ANKoS Chapter 12 - the principle of computational equivalence

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