If the tools of research are new, is it a new kind of science? This is a conceptual problem I have with the Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science. The other problem is his personal arrogance and conceit in the writing about his own work (see the text from the book’s jacket flap, on the right; written by the author of the book, of course).

REVIEWER = PUBLISHER = EDITOR = AUTHOR = STEPHEN WOLFRAM

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Hardcover: 1192 pages

Publisher: Wolfram Media (May, 2002)

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You do the work, you write a book about it, you publish the book yourself, you review the book yourself, what more can you do? Write your own epitaph.