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New York Times feature article about Stephen Wolfram, his ideas and his career.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/11/science/11WOLF.html
New York Times story about Wolfram's 1,263-page, self-published book, "A New Kind of Science," and its relationship to current ideas in cosmology.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/weekinreview/16JOHN.html
Official website. Includes extensive biographical material, interviews, lists and sample contents of the author's books and other publications, information about Mathematica, and Wolfram's answers to various questions.
http://www.stephenwolfram.com/
New York Times feature article about Wolfram and his theories.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/11/arts/11WOLF.html
Forbes magazine article about Wolfram and his mathematically based ideas.
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God, Stephen Wolfram, and Everything Else Forbes.com if (document.cookie.indexOf partner_session=msnbc 1 var _rsCI us-forbes var _rsCG msnbc_hat_test var _rsDT=1; var _rsSI=escape(window.location var _rsLP=location.protocol.indexOf https 1 https http var _rsRP=escape(document.referrer var _rsND=_rsLP secure-us.imrworldwide.com if (parseInt(navigator.appVersion 4 var _rsRD=(new Date getTime var _rsSE=1; var _rsSV var _rsSM=1.0; _rsCL else...New York Times interview with Wolfram.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/07QUESTIONS.html
A critique of the author's claims about establishing the filed of complex systems science on his own. Discusses what's in the body of book, as well as the notes.
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I agree that the universality theme is overstated in Wolfram's, but I would use a slightly different phrasing to explain why Who is this guy who claims to have created a new kind of science? Not a fool, for sure A bit of a child prodigy, Stephan Wolfram graduated Cal Tech in his teenage years, and began his career as a...