Books in Stephen Wolfram's Library

Books in Stephen Wolfram’s library that were used during the creation of A New Kind of Science (Wolfram, 2002).

This is not Stephen Wolfram's complete library; only books used in one way or another for A New Kind of Science.

ISBNs for books were converted to OpenLibrary IDs, from which additional properties were deduced.

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Wolfram Research, "Books in Stephen Wolfram's Library" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2017) https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.40873.data