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
english-scientist few people run
There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.
nonsense i-can ifs
If I can't understand something, then it's probably nonsense.
nature years computer
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.
notebook running firsts
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.