He certainly put his claim in context, but my suspicion was that &quot;I ended up finishing this 150-year process&quot; was a bit grandiose, so I wanted to see if anyone was familiar with this work.<p>People can definitely be quick to criticize Wolfram for pomposity, but I&#x27;ve seen a lot of passages from <i>A New Kind of Science</i> where he says &quot;I discovered X&quot; but means &quot;someone else discovered X, then I confirmed it for myself.&quot;