----- Original Message ----- From: "Edwin Clark" <eclark@math.usf.edu> To: <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 7:01 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] A New Kind of Science * 4:15PM, Wed February 12, 2003 in Gates B03
Who could have written this puff piece? ...a major paradigm shift? Ha. --Edwin Clark
Gray: This opinion is shared my many, but ANKOS is easily the worst science book I've ever encountered. It's overlong, ego-saturated, badly written, very poorly designed, gives credit to almost no one, has no bibliography, and posits a theory that has, in my humble opinion, little chance of affecting science once the hype dies out. To top it off, Wolfie did not originate that theory. Ed Fredkin had much more to do with it. A better title for ANKOS would have been ANKOGF (A New Kind of Goat Food).