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44 Conjectures of Stephen Wolfram Disproved

Posted by kdawson on from the new-kind-of-error dept.

Richard Pritches writes in to let us know that MIT errata expert Evangelos Georgiadis has disproved 44 conjectures set by Dr. Stephen Wolfram (founder of Mathematica) in A New Kind of Science. The paper was published in the latest issue of the Journal of Cellular Automata and can be read in PDF form at Prof Edwin Clark's collection of reviews of Wolfram's ANKS. "The formulas provided by Wolfram for these [44] rules are not minimal. Moreover for 8 of these cannot be minimal even by simple inspection since minimal formula sizes for 3-input Boolean functions over this basis never exceeds 5."

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  1. Watch out for the roundhouse kick by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Doesn't Evangelos know that Wolfram is the Chuck Norris of Math?
    Nobody disproves Chuck Norris and lives to publish about it!

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  2. Re:English anyone?? by rxmd · · Score: 5, Funny

    "has disproving"
    is it that hard to write a summary without such huge errors??
    i'm not a native english speaker, and it even pokes out my eyes...
    You have assuming that the editors can reading!
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  3. Re:Humm... by ceoyoyo · · Score: 5, Funny

    For particularly small values of "everyone" of course.