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Stephen Wolfram's Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of PDF

By Stephen Wolfram

ISBN-10: 1579550037

ISBN-13: 9781579550035

This ebook of completely enticing essays from one in all trendy so much prodigious innovators presents a uniquely own standpoint at the lives and achievements of a range of exciting figures from the heritage of technological know-how and know-how. Weaving jointly his immersive curiosity in humans and heritage with insights collected from his personal reviews, Stephen Wolfram provides an ennobling examine a number of the contributors whose rules and creations have assisted in shaping our international this present day. From his memories approximately operating with Richard Feynman to his insights approximately how Alan Turing's paintings has unleashed generations of innovation to the genuine position of Ada Lovelace within the historical past of computing, Wolfram takes the reader into the minds and lives of significant thinkers and creators of the prior few centuries and exhibits how nice achievements can come up from dramatically varied personalities and existence trajectories.

Contents:

Preface
Richard Feynman
Kurt Gödel
Alan Turing
John von Neumann
George Boole
Ada Lovelace
Gottfried Leibniz
Benoit Mandelbrot
Steve Jobs
Marvin Minsky
Russell Towle
Bertrand Russell
Alfred Whitehead
Richard Crandall
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Solomon Golomb

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