Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolframis a British scientist known for his work in computer science, mathematics, and in theoretical physics. He is the author of the book A New Kind of Science. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 August 1959
describe dominated english-scientist exact good natural sciences using
You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.
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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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If I can't understand something, then it's probably nonsense.
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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 and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.
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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 version of Mathematica can run without change in 3.0, and any notebook can be converted.
rocks humans
Rocks are computationally equivalent to humans.