Wolfram Research is part of the Wolfram Group which consists of four companies: Wolfram Research Inc., Wolfram Media Inc., Wolfram Research Europe Ltd. in the United Kingdom and Wolfram Research Asia Ltd. in Japan. The company summarizes its aim as "Pushing the Envelope of Technical Computing". The main product of Wolfram Research is Mathematica, an environment for technical computing. The founder and CEO of Wolfram Research is Stephen Wolfram, scientist and author, who maintains close involvement with the development of Mathematica.
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Wolfram Research (http://www.wolfram.com)
Wolfram Research's MathWorld (http://mathworld.wolfram.com) - Encyclopedia of Mathematics
Born in London in 1959, Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford, and Caltech.
Wolfram himself used his ideas to develop a new randomness generation system and a new approach to computational fluid dynamics--both of which are now in widespread use.
Wolfram is also increasingly active in defining new directions for education, especially in the science he has created.
Wolfram himself considers it the logical next step from earlier scientific revolutions, each of which disabused humanity of the notion that there is something "special" about our species and its place in the scheme of things.
Wolfram also began to build a case that the same mechanisms that determined the outcome of cellular-automata experiments were omnipresent in nature itself.
Wolfram's theory that there is a single rule at the heart of everything - a single simple algorithm that, in effect, generates all the rules of physics and everything else - is bound to be one of his most controversial claims, a theory that even some of his close friends in physics aren't buying.
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