I agree Wolfram's pompous, egocentric self promotion is outright an Insult to many hard working people who did not receive credit for their own insight.
it was alright for me. I learned some new things as well
To me, reading the book allowed me the chance to view a whole other means of mathematical modeling from a coherent and complete viewpoint.
If you filter out his ego, his book is more like a good reference of discrete computational modeling as opposed to continuous functional analysis. In a sense it's what he tries to say with his 'computational equivalence'. He does use self worship and awe to try and sell his opinions as 'truth'. Still, I can't deny the coherence, order and hierarchy to the book. That structure would make the book definitely worthwhile had he given credit to the appropriate people.
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I agree Wolfram's pompous, egocentric self promotion is outright an Insult to many hard working people who did not receive credit for their own insight.
it was alright for me. I learned some new things as well
To me, reading the book allowed me the chance to view a whole other means of mathematical modeling from a coherent and complete viewpoint.
If you filter out his ego, his book is more like a good reference of discrete computational modeling as opposed to continuous functional analysis. In a sense it's what he tries to say with his 'computational equivalence'. He does use self worship and awe to try and sell his opinions as 'truth'. Still, I can't deny the coherence, order and hierarchy to the book. That structure would make the book definitely worthwhile had he given credit to the appropriate people.
One word: Quantum. get it?