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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.
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*[[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.  
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*[[Stephen Wolfram]] published  ''A New Kind of Science'' (2002) which emphasized their importance and that cellular automata would fundamentally change how science is done; see [[Computational irreducibility]].
    
==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]]
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