Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" goes open-access
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2PST8)
It's been 15 years since the publication of Steven Wolfram's A New Kind of Science, a mindblowing, back-breaking 1,200-page book that (sort of) says the whole universe is made up of recursive fractals, also noteworthy for the frequent repetition of the phrase "A new kind of science" in its early chapters. (more")