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Title: Pompous and nearly useless
Review: This book is a wonderful demonstration of the use of grayscale, and not much more. I will provide two of many examples that support the title of this review.1.) Chapter 10 pp 552 a section with the purpose of defining randomness. Stephen begins by outlining the failure of previous attempts to define randomness. Then he leads the reader to believe he has found the answer. Then he proceeds to identically fail to advance the notion of randomness in any way whatever.2.) Chapter 2 pp 223. "One might think that starting from such randomness no order would ever emerge." Who thinks that? Certainly not I. This book is replete with examples of Stephen starting from a baseless assumption and then showing how his book lifts us from this state of ignorant belief to novel enlightenment. When if fact, not a single possibly worthwhile idea in the book is original to him.Signed : Ph. D. from MIT and definitely not a layman.
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