December 2009
2 posts
“When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human...”
– H.G. Wells
Steve Wolfram Automata →
Born in 1959, Wolfram won a scholarship to Eton College at the age of 12, became interested in particle physics aged 14 and two years later wrote a paper that was published in a prestigious journal (Australian Journal of Physics, vol 28, p 479). At 17 he went to the University of Oxford, but left two years later to take up a research post at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. By...