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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 technical computations.  His company hosts the free MathWorld, which states that it is the "web's most extensive mathematics resource."<ref>http://mathworld.wolfram.com/</ref>. [[Eric Weisstein]] is the major designer of MathWorld, along with contributions by many others worldworld.  

'''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.  

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.

* 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]

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==External Links==

==External links==

*[http://www.stephenwolfram.com/ Stephen Wolfram's official site]

:[http://www.stephenwolfram.com/ Stephen Wolfram's official site]

*[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]

:[http://tones.wolfram.com/ WolframTones: An Experiment in a New Kind of Music]

[[Category:Mathematicians|Wolfram, Stephen]]

[[Category:Mathematicians|Wolfram, Stephen]]