When1: 1994
When2: 2002
Who: Stephen Wolfram [Wolfram, Stephen]
What: mathematician
Where: USA
works\ Cellular Automata and Complexity: Collected Papers [1994]; New Kind of Science [2002]
Detail: He invented Mathematica software.
Science does not need laws expressed as mathematical equations. Simple non-linear rules operating on simple units can generate all pattern types and describe all phenomena. Because they can be equivalent to any algorithm, cellular automata can describe all complex processes. Physical systems satisfying differential equations can be cellular automatons, by substituting finite differences and discrete variables for differential equations. His Rule 30 seems to create unpredictable pattern, rather than expected recursiveness. www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/articles/date.html.
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