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A New Kind of Science
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Author: Stephen Wolfram
List Price: $44.95
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ISBN: 1579550088
Publisher: Wolfram Media, Inc. (14 May, 2002)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 6,166
Average Customer Rating: 2.79 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
A 20th century Salieri ?
Having browsed through the book -no proper thorough reading, I admit- and the various reviews, I find here a similarity with that well known 2nd class author. And I truly enjoyed in the meantime Jozsef Gregor's version of a similarly overdimensioned work: Salieri's Falstaff. Cool !
Rating: 1 out of 5
A deception of book
I can not add anything new to the reviews in these pages, everything has been said. I do agree with everybody rating 1/5 this pretentious book.
Rating: 1 out of 5
There goes fifty bucks I wish I could get back!
There is little if anything I can add to the many negative reviews that have already been written about this book, other than to add my voice to the chorus. Needlessly long, repetitive, unoriginal, self-aggrandizing. That about sums it up. The most significant impression I got from this book came as the result of accidentally dropping it on my own foot. Ahaw, Ahaw. Am I not droll? Seriously though. Don't waste your time or money on this book.The one observation I have not yet seen expressed (Or as Stephen would put it: "The single most surpising discovery I have ever made") is that it is an entertaining diversion to re-create the algorithms in Wolfram's book using Microsoft Excel.
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