For the last few months (I started around November 2008 I think), I've been reading Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science". I have to admit that it has been taking an unusually long time for me to go through the book. I usually read it during my lunch breaks.
This morning, I tried out Wolfram Alpha and following links to it, I stumbled on to a book review located here: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/ which summarizes the books as "A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity". I am now 2/3rds into the book and I believe I am not qualified (being just a lowly BSBA-Economics grad) to comment on its topic. It does try to apply itself to a diverse set of known concepts and ideas which I just take at face value. So what do you guys think about this book? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
