Stephen Wolfram

(1959) Mathematician United States

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Stephen Wolfram is a mathematician from the United States, best known for A new kind of science.

Quick Facts About Stephen Wolfram

Born: August 29, 1959
Nationality: United States
Profession: Mathematician
Notable works: A new kind of science
Known for: Wolfram Language, Mathematica, A New Kind of Science

About Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He works in computer algebra and theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

MacArthur Fellows Program Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow of the American Mathematical Society Friedrich L. Bauer Prize

Quotes by Stephen Wolfram

It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego.

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Ego

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The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates…

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Facts

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Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier…

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Change

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The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can…

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Anything

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What I realized is that if we're going to be able to have a theory about what happens in, for example, nature…

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Computer

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Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today.

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Computing

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“It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so much that seems to us so…

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Complexity

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“I'm committed to seeing this project done. To see if within this decade we can finally hold in our hands the rule…

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Commitment

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You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have…

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Been

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I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.

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Inspirational

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People have been trying to do kind of natural language processing with computers for decades and there has only been sort of…

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Computer

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Rocks are computationally equivalent to humans.

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Humans

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So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers…

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Computers

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...All the wonders of our universe can in effect be captured by simple rules, yet ... there can be no way to…

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Captured

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There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.

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Changes

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The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the…

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Building

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