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Idea Makers
Stephen Wolfram ISBN 9781579550035
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Stephen Wolfram ISBN 9781579550035
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This book by Stephen Wolfram has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. The people who brought it up: Tim Ferriss, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2018-03-02 and the most recent from 2022-11-24. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
This book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today's most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective on the lives and achievements of a selection of intriguing figures from the history of science and technology. Weaving together his immersive interest in people and history with insights gathered from his own experiences, Stephen Wolfram gives an ennobling look at some of the individuals whose ideas and creations have helped shape our world today.
“I have not read this book of yours, but Idea Makers. It's a compilation of essays. How did you choose the players on the field for this?”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Stephen Wolfram: Creator of Wolfram Language, Mathematica, and Wolfram|Alpha; founder of Wolfram Research and the new Wolfram Institute, leading the Wolfram Physics Project. Stephen Wolfram on computational physics, the ruliad, the nature of time and consciousness, and his decades-long productivity systems.
“I even wrote this little book called idea makers which is about biographies of a bunch of people who for one reason or another I've written about”— guest
The guest here is Stephen Wolfram: Physicist, computer scientist, and entrepreneur; creator of Wolfram Alpha, Mathematica, and the Wolfram Language, and author of A New Kind of Science. Stephen Wolfram on mining the computational universe, why simple programs create complexity, and what AGI means for human purpose.
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