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P versus NP questions Most programs that are explicitly constructed to solve specific problems tend at some level to have rather... – from A New Kind of Science
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/pix--preface/
Preface Just over twenty years ago I made what at first seemed like a small discovery: a computer experiment of mine showed some... – from A New Kind of Science
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Computational complexity theory Despite its rather general name, computational complexity theory has for the most part been... – from A New Kind of Science
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The latest on exploring the computational universe, with free online access to Stephen Wolfram's classic 1,200-page breakthrough book.
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p84--substitution-systems/
Then the point is that because the rules depend only on the color of a particular branch, and not on the colors of any... – from A New Kind of Science
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Colophon The original source for this book was created in FrameMaker, processed using an automated build system based o... – from A New Kind of Science
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/notes-10-12--computer-and-human-languages/
[Computer and human] languages There are about 140 human languages and 15 full-fledged computer languages currently in use by... – from A New Kind of Science
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Captions on this page: Maps of where in the space of parameters for the substitution systems on the... – from A New Kind of Science
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How to make your own ChatGPT plugin that does specific computations or accesses your own data or services. Deploy to your own machine or the cloud. Plus,...
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https://www.newscientist.com/video/2509684-stephen-wolfram-no-ai-has-impressed-me/
Dec 23, 2025 - Stephen Wolfram has been hunting for a theory of everything since his first days as a particle physicist at Caltech. Could AI unlock his quest?
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p25--how-do-simple-programs-behave/
This pattern is however again fairly simple. And we might assume that at least with the type of cellular automata that we are... – from A New Kind of Science
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/chap-2--the-crucial-experiment/
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/notes-7-9--nested-lists/
Nested lists One can think of structures that annihilate in pairs as being like parentheses or other delimiters that come in... – from A New Kind of Science
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https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/05/the-making-of-a-new-kind-of-science/
Stephen Wolfram shares the behind-the-scenes process of his NKS book. From years of research to working with publishers, book design, getting the right photos...
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p411--growth-of-plants-and-animals/
So just how does this angle show up in actual plant systems? As the top pictures below demonstrate, the details depend on the... – from A New Kind of Science
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p485--the-relationship-of-space-and-time/
contradict the correspondence between space and time that is built into most of present-day physics. So one might wonder how... – from A New Kind of Science
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p78--turing-machines/
Turing Machines In the history of computing, the first widely understood theoretical computer programs ever constructed were... – from A New Kind of Science
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Stephen Wolfram explores multiway systems as minimal models for growth processes based on aggregation and tiling. Also, how to use this concrete application as...
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p249--four-classes-of-behavior/
Captions on this page: The behavior of a class 4 two-dimensional cellular automaton often known in... – from A New Kind of Science
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https://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_wolfram_computing_a_theory_of_all_knowledge
Apr 27, 2010 - Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new...
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p761--undecidability-and-intractability/
Captions on this page: Examples of computations being done by Turing machines with two states and two col... – from A New Kind of Science
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Stephen Wolfram takes a computational view of time, defining it abstractly, and the implications from computational irreducibility.
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Dec 19, 2025 - For decades, Stephen has been committed to a singular vision around computation and knowledge, and we’re honored to have him join.
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p43--why-these-discoveries-were-not-made-before/
Captions on this page: Historical examples of ornamental art. Repetitive patterns are common and some... – from A New Kind of Science
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Follow Stephen Wolfram's evolution of research on the 2nd Law from early interest as a 12-year-old to his current findings in the Wolfram Physics Project. View...
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Brief history of Stephen Wolfram: creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, author of A New Kind of Science, founder & CEO of Wolfram Research.
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/notes-10-12--history-of-ideas-about-thinking/
History [of ideas about thinking] Ever since antiquity immense amounts have been written about human thinking. Until recent cent... – from A New Kind of Science
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https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/03/when-exactly-will-the-eclipse-happen-a-multimillennium-tale-of-computation/
Wolfram tech and its dedicated website now easily predict eclipses. A look at advances in understanding and science from ancient eclipse data thousands of...
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https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/computational-foundations-for-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics/
Stephen Wolfram applies lessons learned from the Wolfram Physics Project to construct a proper framework to explain why--and to what extent--the Second Law of...
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https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/five-most-productive-years-what-happened-and-whats-next/
On his 65th birthday, Stephen Wolfram details how his 'now or never' thinking has made the last five years some of his most productive. Read about his projects...
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Built-in Wolfram Language function SolarEclipse automatically computes nearly 100 properties about eclipses. For past and future eclipses, find type,...
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Zipf's law To a fairly good approximation the n ^ th most common word in a large sample of English text occurs with frequency... – from A New Kind of Science
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Easy access to LLM technology that interprets plain text input into computational Wolfram Language code. Efficient for testing new ideas, pinpointing the...
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[Memory analogs with] numerical data In situations where pieces of data can be thought of as points in space similarity can... – from A New Kind of Science
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List of all sections in Chapter 1 from Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science
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https://www.wolfram.com/language/elementary-introduction/3rd-ed/?source=home
Start using the Wolfram Language. Stephen Wolfram's book introduces the basics with a series of easy-to-follow examples, exercises, QA, tech notes.
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p773--implications-for-mathematics-and-its-foundations/
Captions on this page: Axiom systems for traditional mathematics. It is from the axiom systems on this pa... – from A New Kind of Science
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cellular automata with rules as simple as the ones we have been using these three forms of behavior would be all that we could... — from A New Kind of Science
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p334--the-phenomenon-of-continuity/
Captions on this page: A two-dimensional cellular automaton first shown on page 178 with the rule that if... – from A New Kind of Science
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p489--time-and-causal-networks/
[No text on this... – from A New Kind of Science
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https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/notes-10-12--the-brain/
The brain There are a total of about 100 billion neurons in a human brain (see page 1075 ), each with an average of a few... – from A New Kind of Science
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Library of downloadable writings by Stephen Wolfram covering physics, computation, AI and philosophy. Each clearly makes connections between scientific and...
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