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Title: 10 years down the drain
Review: Knowing Wolfram's reputation, this reader was hoping the author was going to leave his huge ego in the closet and try to be convincing and at least somewhat interesting. Wolfram failed on both counts. Not only is the book an absolute bore (but then, mathematics has nothing to do with passion, or does it?), but its repeated promise of an epiphany falls flat on its face. Mr. Wolfram, a genius some say, has spent 10 years writing this book. I can understand he spent 10 years making pretty pictures to complement his arguments, and I can appreciate the metaphor CA represent for computation and complexity, but this book only shows expressions of computation, in nature and elsewhere, and then stands proudly like a fool on the hill... while everybody else went to town.
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