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Stephen Wolfram

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Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram
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Category: Science & Tech
Born:
August 29, 1959, London, England (age 64)
Notable Works:
“A New Kind of Science”
Subjects Of Study:
cellular automata
nature
scientific modeling
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Stephen Wolfram (born August 29, 1959, London, England) English physicist and author best known for his contributions to the field of cellular automata and the development of Mathematica, an algebraic software system, and Wolfram Alpha, a search engine. The son of a novelist and a philosophy professor, Wolfram attended Eton College (1972–76), from which he never graduated, and published his first scientific paper at age 15. He later studied at the University of Oxford (1976–78) and the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), where he earned a doctorate (1979) in theoretical physics at age 20. In 1981 he became the youngest ...(100 of 464 words)

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