Wolfram Research, Inc.
Type	Scientific & Technical Computing Software
Founded	1987
Founder	Stephen Wolfram
Headquarters	Champaign, Illinois (worldwide headquarters); Oxfordshire, UK (European headquarters); Tokyo, Japan (Asian headquarters); with additional locations in Cambridge, Massachusetts; & Paris, France.
Key people	President, Stephen Wolfram
Industry	Computer software, Publishing, Research and Development
Products	Mathematica, Wolfram Workbench, gridMathematica, webMathematica
Owner	Privately held
Employees	300+
Divisions	Wolfram Media Inc., Wolfram Research Europe Ltd. in the United Kingdom and Wolfram Research Asia Ltd. in Japan.
Website	www.wolfram.com

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Software

The primary software product of Wolfram Research is the program Mathematica, which has just, as of May 2007, undergone an upgrade with version 6 that the company describes as "the most important upgrade in the application’s 20-year history."^[1] Other products include Wolfram Workbench, gridMathematica, and webMathematica. For other uses, see Mathematica (disambiguation). ...

Publishing

Wolfram Research publishes The Mathematica Journal and has published several books via Wolfram Media, Wolfram's publishing arm^[2]: A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram, Graphica 1: The Imaginary Made Real by Michael Trott, and Graphica 2: The Pattern of Beauty by Igor Bakshee ^[3]. A New Kind of Science is a controversial book by Stephen Wolfram, published in 2002. ... Stephen Wolfram (born August 29, 1959 in London) is a physicist known for his work in theoretical particle physics, cellular automata, complexity theory, and computer algebra, and is the creator of the computer program Mathematica. ...

Public services

In addition to its commercial products, Wolfram Research publishes several, free of charge, public services:

• MathWorld and ScienceWorld encyclopedia sites
• The Integrator online calculations
• The Wolfram Functions Site
• MathMLCentral MathML format conversion
• The Wolfram Demonstrations Project educational resources
• WolframTones music generation

MathWorld is an online mathematics reference work, sponsored by Wolfram Research Inc. ... ScienceWorld, also known as Eric Weissteins World of Science, is a web site that opened to the general public in January 2002. ... Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) is an application of XML for describing mathematical notations and capturing both its structure and content. ...

Consulting

Wolfram Research serves as the mathematical consultant for the CBS Television Series Numb3rs, a show about the mathematical applications of crime-solving. NUMB3RS (pronounced Numbers) is an American television show produced by brothers Ridley and Tony Scott. ...

See also

• Mathematica
• Stephen Wolfram
• A New Kind of Science
• MathWorld
• Eric W. Weisstein
• Ed Pegg, Jr.

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References

External links

• Wolfram Research, corporate website
• WolframBlog: The Wolfram Research corporate blog, launched May 2007.
• Hoovers Fact Sheet on Wolfram Research, Inc.
• Michael Trott: The Science and Art of Mathematica by Tim McIntyre, Science, Apple.com, 2007.
• The Mathematics Behind NUMB3RS, Wolfram's site on NUMB3RS mathematics.

External links on corporate history

• Supercomputer Pictures Solve the Once Insoluble, John Markoff, The New York Times, October 30, 1988
• Meet an Inventor Whose Product Makes Complex Calculus Simple by Gautam Naik, The Wall Street Journal, September 25, 1996
• Stephen Wolfram's Simple Science by Michael Arndt, Business Week, May 17, 2002.
• Wolfram releases 'revolutionary' Mathematica 6: Mathematica 6 developer promises a 'revolution in computing' by Jonny Evans, MacWorld, May 2, 2007.