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Title: Fascinating despite overstated claims
Review: Wolfram's book is a great collection of cellular automata examples. The book succeeds simply by displaying interestingstructures and for this reason the book may be better titled: A New Kind of Mathematics.Unfortunately the structures Wolfram has described have yet to be tied to any predictive theory. Wolfram's neglect to explainany of his mathematical tests, failure to rigourously define complexity and failure to supply a metric for complexity are problems that limit the book to recreational interest at best. When these issues are addressed (a second edition perhaps?) I will yeild the fifth star.
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