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1) New Scientist : Interview with Stephen Wolfram: Meet the people shaping the future of science Principia Mathematica III
He was a child prodigy, publishing his first paper at 15. Now Stephen
Wolfram says he has created a new kind of science based on simple
computer programs rather than equations. It's a bold claim, but it
has taken him 20 years--ten of them thinking and working late into
the night, and publishing nothing. By a nice irony, that intellectual
space was bought by the millions he made out of Mathematica, a
computer program that makes complicated mathematics doable for
ordinary mortals. Now, at 41, he's busy gearing himself up for the
glare of publicity as he prepares to publish the fruit of all those
years. Marcus Chown caught up with Wolfram--at 3 am
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