Wolfram's New Kind of Science Now Online

gotscheme writes "When Stephen Wolfram of Mathematica fame self-published A New Kind of Science in 2002, he raised the suspicions of many in scientific communities that he was taking advantage of a lot of other people's work for his sole financial gain and that he was going against the open nature of academia by using restrictive copyright. Yesterday, Wolfram and company released the entire contents of NKS for free on the Web (short registration required). Perhaps Wolfram is giving back to the scientific community; perhaps it is simply clever marketing for a framework that is beginning to gain momentum. For any matter, the entire encyclopedic volume is online, and this appears to be a positive step for scientific writing."

Comments

this book is pure sheit

[Anonymous Coward]

heh. just go read the amazon.com reviews.

the book has nothing to do with science and everything to do with Wolfram navel gazaing about his own brilliance.

go and read a few chapters, you will see that every second paragraph contains the sentences " I discovered this, and I discovered that, and I'm oh so fuking brilliant" types of statements.

this is nothing more than the masturbation of a pathetic adult male with a very high I.Q. and very low emotional development.

he truly and desperately wants to believe that he is the next einstein.

pathetic.