of Authority phenomenon, in which members of the public assume that just because a scientist is an authority on one thing (such as theoretical computer science) makes him or her an authority on another totally unrelated issue (such as religion). I am happy to report that Donald Knuth is both an expert theoretical computer scientist and has some cogent things to say about religion. Review of A New Kind of Science8 Stephen Wolfram Publisher: Wolfram Media, 2002 ISBN: 1579550088 Review by: Hassan Masum Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada hmasum.com In a Nutshell A New Kind of Science uses a wide range of easy-to-understand models - mostly cellular automata variants - to explore one key idea: some simple computational models can generate very complex behavior, and may describe aspects of the physical and mathematical universe better than traditional mathematical approaches. Wolfram s book has been the subject of much speculation, partly due to its lengthy preparation time (10 years). Since it came out a few months ago, published opinions of the book have ranged from worthless to ground-breaking. As you will glean from points made later, this book is a di cult one to review objectively, for
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