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went on to revolutionize the field of cellular automata, transforming it from an obscure corner of mathematics into a leading subfield of the emerging new discipline of complexity science
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'''Stephen Wolfram''' (born 1959) is an independent [[physicist]], [[mathematician]], and the founder of ''Wolfram Research, Inc.'', a successful software company that sells software programs for scientific research and publications; its flagship product is ''[[Mathematica]]'', a programming language designed for technical computation. His company hosts the free [[MathWorld]], an online encyclopedia of mathematics.<ref>http://mathworld.wolfram.com/</ref> [[Eric Weisstein]] is the major designer of MathWorld, along with contributions by many others worldwide.
'''Stephen Wolfram''' (born 1959) is an independent [[physicist]], [[mathematician]], and the founder of ''Wolfram Research, Inc.'', a successful software company that sells software programs for scientific research and publications; its flagship product is ''[[Mathematica]]'', a programming language designed for technical computation. His company hosts the free [[MathWorld]], an online encyclopedia of mathematics.<ref>http://mathworld.wolfram.com/</ref> [[Eric Weisstein]] is the major designer of MathWorld, along with contributions by many others worldwide.
* A bit of a child prodigy, Stephan Wolfram graduated Cal Tech in his teenage years, and began his career as a theoretical physicist. He then went on to revolutionize the field of cellular automata, transforming it from an obscure corner of mathematics into a leading subfield of the emerging new discipline of [[complexity science]]. Eventually he entered the business world, founding and making his fortune from Mathematica, the company that made symbolic computer algebra practical and widespread for the first time. [http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/2002/WolframReview.htm]
After two years of intense work, Wolfram published ''A New Kind of Science'' in 2002 in which he turned to [[cellular automata]] for insights in science.
After two years of intense work, Wolfram published ''A New Kind of Science'' in 2002 in which he turned to [[cellular automata]] for insights in science.