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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

The most elementary example of something like this is the statement ( already present in Euclid ) that if and , then. And we can trace the argument for this to the Principle of Computational Equivalence. elementary updating events) in physical space. A large part has to do with the identification of equivalences.

Physics 117
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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

And as a kind of graduation gift when I finished (British) elementary school in June 1972 I arranged to get those books. I’d started by considering only “elementary” cellular automata , in one dimension, with k = 2 colors, and with rules of range r = 1. There are 256 such “elementary rules”. code 10)”.

Physics 95
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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

And if we’re going to make a “general theory of mathematics” a first step is to do something like we’d typically do in natural science, and try to “drill down” to find a uniform underlying model—or at least representation—for all of them. and zero arguments: α[ ]. &#10005. &#10005. &#10005. or: &#10005.