Fwd: Re: Fwd: stephen wolfram/cellular automata

a good quotation - it looks like one from the Waldrop Complexity book - that 
has a lot of chat about Wolfram by Langton and Kauffman. He's a weird 
character who did loads of that work when he was a teenager and in his ealy 
twenties. he quit academia when he got his phd to set up a software company 
making Mathmatica. He figured that if all the mathematicians in the world 
used his software he could exrecise undue influence on the mathematics of 
the future. and indeed everyone who does pure mathematics anywhere in the 
world now uses his software. That's more control over a set of research 
programmes than almost anyone has ever had - scary..

Jon


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