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The book is basically a scam and panned. He talks about automata like it was new and he invented it. I strongly suggest you read the Amazon reviews.



On the plus side it is full of pretty pictures, has a massive number of pages which can be used to press leaves or flowers, heat in the winter and a door stop in the summer to encourage airflow. There really isn't a bad quality about this book. Oh, and super cheap on the used market.


Got mine for about 10 USD. page/price ratio is quite impressive.


Haha! :) Touché!


I can form my own opinion thanks.

At least he doesn't have his head up his ass the may Mandelbrot did.

And on top of it all he generated a great deal of original work.


> At least he doesn't have his head up his ass the may Mandelbrot did

I see you've never met Stephen.


Wolfram is known to be super arrogant. Granted, he has accomplished a lot as a business man and is probably almost twice as intelligent as me, but there are probably more useful books out there.




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