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Full Text of A New Kind of Science

The full text of Stephen Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science

This resource contains the full text of a New Kind of Science as a single string, as well as an association divided into chapters and sections, notes, and the full text of each page.

(449472 words/2772136 characters)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve a snippet of text:

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Snippet[ResourceData["Full Text of A New Kind of Science"], 10]
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Visualization

Create a word cloud for the book:

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WordCloud[ResourceData["Full Text of A New Kind of Science"]]
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Analysis

Create a word cloud for the first 4 chapters of the book:

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#ChapterNumber -> WordCloud@ StringJoin[ Riffle[ #Text & /@ #Sections, "\n" ] ] & /@ Take[ResourceData["Full Text of A New Kind of Science", All][ "Association"]["Chapters"], 4]
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See how often “rule __” appears in NKS:

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ReverseSort@ Counts@StringCases[ ResourceData["Full Text of A New Kind of Science"], "rule " ~~ x : (DigitCharacter ..) :> ToExpression[x]]
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Create a word cloud of rule numbers:

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WordCloud[ StringCases[ResourceData["Full Text of A New Kind of Science"], "rule " ~~ x : (DigitCharacter ..) :> ToExpression[x]] ]
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Wolfram Research, "Full Text of A New Kind of Science" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2017)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.15062.data

Data Resource History

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Source Metadata

  • Creator: Stephen Wolfram
  • Source: http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html
  • Citation: Stephen Wolfram, “A New Kind of Science” (2002)

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Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research