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BOOK REVIEW on A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram Wolfram (2001)  (Make Corrections)  
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Abstract: Introduction A New Kind of Science [2], the 1280-page treatise by Mathematica creator Stephen Wolfram, has only a few things to say about quantum computing. Yet the book's goal---to understand nature in computational terms---is one widely shared by the quantum computing community. Thus, many in the field will likely be curious: is this 2.5-kilogram tome worth reading? Notwithstanding newspaper comparisons [3] to Darwin's Origin of Species, what is the book's actual content? This review will... (Update)

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@misc{ aaronson-book,
  author = "Scott Aaronson",
  title = "BOOK REVIEW on A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram Wolfram",
  url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/aaronson01book.html" }
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