Difference between revisions of "Stephen Wolfram"
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:[http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html Stephen Wolfram's ''A New Kind of Science'' Complete Book Online Version] | :[http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html Stephen Wolfram's ''A New Kind of Science'' Complete Book Online Version] | ||
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:[http://tones.wolfram.com/ WolframTones: An Experiment in a New Kind of Music] | :[http://tones.wolfram.com/ WolframTones: An Experiment in a New Kind of Music] | ||
[[Category:Mathematicians|Wolfram, Stephen]] | [[Category:Mathematicians|Wolfram, Stephen]] | ||
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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, which states that it is the "web's most extensive mathematics resource."[1]. Eric Weisstein is the major designer of MathWorld, along with contributions by many others worldworld.
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. This was a popular success but met with a mixed reaction by other scientists and mathematicians. The book has not generated much change in the direction of science but remains a valuable resource.
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