PROGRAMS FROM THE NOTES
This page gives access to the programs in the Notes at the end of A
New
Kind of Science. Included are both verbatim code from the book
and complete runnable functions with examples.
Run the programs to reproduce Wolfram's results from A New Kind
of Science—or to do your own experiments.
Study the programs to get insight into the concepts and methodology
of A New Kind of Science—or to understand more about the
powerful symbolic Wolfram Language programming paradigm.
Chapter 2: The Crucial
Experiment
Chapter 3:
The World of Simple Programs
Chapter 4:
Systems Based on Numbers
Chapter 5:
Two Dimensions and Beyond
Chapter 6:
Starting from Randomness
Chapter 7:
Mechanisms in Programs and Nature
Chapter 8:
Implications for Everyday Systems
Chapter 9:
Fundamental Physics
Chapter 10:
Processes of Perception and Analysis
Chapter 11:
The Notion of Computation
Chapter 12:
The Principle of Computational Equivalence
All
Chapters (.zip file)
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Programs require Mathematica 4.0 or later. Most major universities
have Mathematica
license
programs.
Student versions
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worldwide from Wolfram
Research and its distributors.
Programs are licensed software subject
to the terms and conditions set forth on the copyright page of A
New Kind of Science.
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