Cellular Automata And Complexity: Collected Papers
by Stephen Wolfram
Publisher: Westview Press 1994
ISBN/ASIN: 0201626640
ISBN-13: 9780201626643
Number of pages: 608
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These original and widely known papers on cellular automata and complexity provide a highly readable account of what has become a major new field of science, with important implications for physics, biology, economics, computer science, and many other areas.
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