Stephen Wolfram, Ph.D., Inventor of Mathematica

Today, my guest is Stephen Wolfram, Ph.D., the creator of Mathematica,  Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; the originator of the Wolfram Physics Project; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Over the course of more than four decades, he has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking—and has been responsible for many discoveries, inventions and innovations in science, technology and business.

Stephen is also the author of  A New Kind of Science, a 1200-page book released in 2002 and immediately became a bestseller. Its publication has been seen as initiating a paradigm shift of historic importance in science, with new implications emerging every year. In addition to his corporate leadership, Stephen is deeply involved in the development of the company’s technology, personally overseeing the functional design of the company’s core products on a daily basis, and constantly introducing new ideas and directions. Stephen studied at Eton, Oxford and received his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech by the age of 20.