A New Kind of Science
by Stephen Wolfram
Publisher: Wolfram Media 2002
ISBN/ASIN: 1579550088
ISBN-13: 9781579550080
Number of pages: 1192
Description:
Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments -- illustrated in the book by striking computer graphics -- Wolfram shows how their unexpected results force a whole new way of looking at the operation of our universe.
Download or read it online for free here:
Read online
(online reading)
Similar books
Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Schemeby Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight - Course Technology
The book Concrete Abstractions covers the programming and data structures basics. It will give first-time computer science students the opportunity to not only write programs, but to prove theorems and analyze algorithms as well.
(22902 views)
Foundations of Computer Scienceby Hans-Peter Bischof
This text is an introduction to the formal study of computation. The course will provide students with a broad perspective of computer science and will acquaint them with various formal systems on which modern computer science is based.
(16185 views)
Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computingby Victor Eijkhout - University of Texas
A computational scientist needs knowledge of several aspects of numerical analysis and discrete mathematics. This text covers: computer architecture, parallel computers, machine arithmetic, numerical linear algebra, applications.
(16528 views)
Computer Science: Abstraction to Implementationby Robert M. Keller - Harvey Mudd College
This book is intended for a second course in computer science, one emphasizing principles wherever it seems possible. It is not limited to programming, it attempts to use various programming models to explicate principles of computational systems.
(27464 views)