Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram (born August 29, 1959, London, England) is an 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...