A bunch of us have been working on understanding the physics of the Bussard Fusion Reactor. The subject of getting a copy of Mathematica has come up several times. What is detering us is the cost. Since I have several students in school and know several teachers from grade school to college level I may have a way around that.
In any case when I saw this lecture by Mathematica inventor Stephen Wolfram I couldn’t resist. He explains why the universe we see is so complicated. The essense of it is: simple rules can lead to complicated results. It is inherent in the universe.
The video is about an hour and a half.
Here is the book the lecture is based on: A New Kind of Science
Explore Wolfram Science.
Cross Posted at The Astute Bloggers
A New Kind of Science
by
Tags:
Comments
3 responses to “A New Kind of Science”
Get a copy of Maxima. It’s open source and free. It’s a great symbolic algebra system on *nix. It’s also been ported to Windows and Mac OSX.
There are quite a few critiques of Wolfram’s book. Start with John Derbyshire (a competent mathematician and NRO contributor):
New Kind of Science
ZZMike,
The value of the work isz bringing such ideas to a wider audience.