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Cellular automata involve manipulation of a set of black-and-white cells on a grid using a set of rules for change based on the states of neighboring cells. The rules are applied iteratively over discrete time steps. [[John von Neumann]] and [[John Conway]] helped create this system.

Cellular automata involve manipulation of a set of black-and-white cells on a grid using a set of rules for change based on the states of neighboring cells. The rules are applied iteratively over discrete time steps. [[John von Neumann]] and [[John Conway]] helped create this system.

*[[Stephen Wolfram]] published  ''A New Kind of Science'' (2002) which asserted that Wolfram was responsible for realizing their importance and that cellular automata would fundamentally change how science is done. However, Wolfram's book has been extensively criticized as unoriginal, overhyped and non-rigorous and reminiscent of crankery.[http://www.ams.org/notices/200302/fea-gray.pdf] [http://www.math.usf.edu/~eclark/ANKOS_zuse_fredkin_thesis.html] [http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/][http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20030816/bob10.asp]

*[[Stephen Wolfram]] published  ''A New Kind of Science'' (2002) which asserted that Wolfram was responsible for realizing their importance and that cellular automata would fundamentally change how science is done.  

==External Links==

==External Links==

*[http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html Stephen Wolfram's ''A New Kind of Science'' Complete Book Online Version]  

*[http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html Stephen Wolfram's ''A New Kind of Science'' Complete Book Online Version]  

[[category: mathematics]]

[[category: mathematics]]