Monday, April 16, 2007

A New Kind of Science - Stephen Wolfram

There is a very interesting video on Google by Stephen Wolfram, inventor of Mathematica.

He talks about how simple systems with simple rules can generate very complex results.

Here is the book the lecture is based on: A New Kind of Science

Explore Wolfram Science.

1 comment:

jdwill said...

Fabulous stuff. I had played around with a moderately high performance C++ version of Life (a cell simulator) in the 90's and played with some Mandelbrot generators earlier. I may have to go dust that code off.