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Stephen Wolfram
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Stephen Wolfram is a British and American mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist. Born in London in 1959, he was educated at Eton College, the Dragon School, St John's College, and the California Institute of Technology. He has served as a university teacher and is employed by Wolfram Research and the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. Wolfram is a member of the American Mathematical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he has received the MacArthur Fellows Program award.
His work spans mathematics, physics, and computer science, with influences from Alan Turing and Joel Moses. Notable publications include *Mathematica: a system for doing mathematics by computer* and works on cellular automata and complexity. He resides in Cambridge and Concord.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 29 Aug 1959
- Works
- 14
Top works
- Mathematica 3.0 standard add-on packages
- Cellular automata
- Mathematica : a system for doing mathematics by computer
- Cellular automata
- Cellular automata and complexity
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 986
- Total plays
- 1,992
Stephen Wolfram is a distinguished scientist, inventor, author, and business leader. He is the creator of Mathematica, the author of A New Kind of Science, the creator of Wolfram|Alpha, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. His career has been characterized by a sequence of original and significant achievements. Born in London in 1959, Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford, and Caltech. He published his first scientific paper at the age of 15, and had received his PhD in theoretical physi
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 398
- Cited by
- 23,400
Research areas
Most cited works
- Statistical mechanics of cellular automata1983 · 3,112 cit
- Mathematica. A system for doing mathematics by computer1988 · 2,820 cit
- Universality and complexity in cellular automata1984 · 1,931 cit
- Theory and Applications of Cellular Automata1986 · 1,749 cit
- Cellular automata as models of complexity1984 · 1,501 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,810x
- Convex Optimization
· 2004 · cited 41,074x
- Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
· 2021 · cited 29,279x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,540x
- Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 23,117x
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Quotes
- “Computational reducibility may well be the exception rather than the rule: Most physical questions may be answerable only through irreducible amounts of computation. Those that concern idealized limits of infinite time, volume, or numerical precision can require arbitrarily long computations, and so be formally undecidable.”
- “It's clear that we can go further than the quantum mechanics that I've known for the last fifty years.”
- “I had a very selfish reason for building Mathematica. I wanted to use it myself, a bit like Galileo got to use his telescope four hundred years ago. But I wanted to look, not at the astronomical universe, but at the computational universe.”
- “It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so much that seems to us so complex. Well, I think we found its secret. It's just sampling what's out there in the computational universe.”
- “Could it be that some place out there in the computational universe, we might find our physical universe?”
- “I'm committed to seeing this project done. To see if within this decade we can finally hold in our hands the rule for our universe, and know where our universe lies in the space of all possible universes.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1959-08-29 ) 29 August 1959 (age 66) , London, England
- Citizenship
- British, American
- Education
- Dragon School Eton College St. John's College, Oxford , (no degree) California Institute of Technology , (PhD)
- Known for
- Mathematica Wolfram Alpha A New Kind of Science Wolfram Language
- Awards
- MacArthur Fellowship (1981)
- Fields
- Mathematics Physics Computing Cellular automata
- Institutions
- Wolfram Research Thinking Machines Corporation California Institute of Technology Institute for Advanced Study University of Illinois Urbana–, Champaign
- Thesis
- Some Topics in Theoretical High-Energy Physics (1980)
- Doctoral advisor
- Richard D. Field
- Website
- stephenwolfram.com
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Stephen Wolfram (/ˈwʊlfrəm/ WUUL-frəm; born 29 August 1959) is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He is known for his work in computer algebra and theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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