Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-10-27
Books mentioned on #234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality
Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – ROKA: https://roka.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A new kind of science
A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram is a monumental and unconventional book that explores complex systems, cellular automata, and the fundamental computational rules governing the universe.
Discussed“almost 20 years ago you published A New Kind of Science where you presented a study of complexity and an approach for modeling of complex systems”
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Software
Discussed“and I've got one example great great uh collection of books from my friend Rudy Rucker which were um uh which I have to say the um the books about uh that are very informed by a bunch of science that I've done and the thing that I really loved about them is you know you know in the in”
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book A new kind of science
“I published my big book new kind of science it'll be 20 years ago uh next year so in 2002 and people are saying oh no this can't possibly be true”
Own book Combinators
“um you know this new book I wrote about combinators is is full of stuff like this and and this journal complex systems has lots of papers about these kinds of things but but there isn't really a home for people who do rology or what I'm not the as you call the basic science of rules”