A New Kind of Science-英文文献.pdf

Quantum Information and Computation, Vol. 1, No. 0 (2001) 000–000 c Rinton Press BOOK REVIEW on 2 A New Kind of Science 0 0 by Stephen Wolfram 2 Wolfram Media, Inc., May 2002 Hardcover $44.95 (1192 pages) ISBN: 1579550088 l u J 0 3 “Somebody says, ‘You know, you people always say that space is continuous. How do you know when you get to a small enough dimension that there really 2 are enough points in between, that it isn’t just a lot of dots separated by little v distances?’ Or they say, ‘You know those quantum mechanical amplitudes you 9 told me about, they’re so complicated and absurd, what makes you think those 8 are right? Maybe they aren’t right.’ Such remarks are obvious and are perfectly 0 clear to anybody who is working on this problem. It does not do any good to 6 point this out.” 0 2 —Richard Feynman [1, p.161] 0 / h p 1. Introduction - t n A New Kind of Science [2], the 1280treatise by Mathematica creator Stephen Wol- a fram, has only a few things to say about quantum computing. Yet the book’s goal—to u q understand nature in computational terms—is one wide