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Science 4 October 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5591, pp. 65 - 68
DOI: 10.1126/science.1075073
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DOING SCIENCE:
Is the Universe a Universal Computer?

A review by Melanie Mitchell

A New Kind of Science
Stephen Wolfram
Wolfram Media, Champaign, IL, 2002. 1280 pp. $44.95, £40, C$69.95. ISBN 1-57955-008-8.

Wolfram argues that the best way to understand many systems in nature is to think in terms of simple programs instead of mathematical equations.
The author is at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, OGI School of Science and Engineering, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Beaverton, OR 97006, USA. E-mail: mm{at}cse.ogi.edu

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