STEPHEN WOLFRAM AND MATHEMATICA

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1 STEPHEN WOLFRAM AND MATHEMATICA
Prepared by Jan Riha, Veronika Kainzova, Daniela Navratilova Palacky University Olomouc, Moravian College Olomouc

2 Stephen Wolfram distinguished scientist, inventor, business leader,
creator of SWs: Mathematica, New King of Science, Wolfram Alpha.

3 Mathematica computational software program
used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing elementary mathematical function library special mathematical function library 2D and 3D data and function visualization and animation tools tools for visualizing and analysing graphs tools for combinatoric problems

4 New Kind of Science (NKS)
algorithms discovered by exploring the computational universe the very paradigm of NKS was crucial in involving the program Wolfram Alpha

5 Wolfram Alpha 1/2 new way to get knowledge and answers,
computations based on a wide collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods, long-term goal: to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone

6 Wolfram Alpha 2/2 an engine for computing answers and getting knowledge works by using its broad store of expert-level knowledge to compute answers to questions you ask

7 More about Stephen Wolfram…

8 More about Stephen Wolfram 1/6
born in London in 1959, parents were Jewish refugees, who emigrated from Germany in 1933, his father Hugo was a textile manufacturer and novelist, his mother Sybil was a professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford,

9 More about Stephen Wolfram 2/6
his first scientific paper published at the age of 15, Ph.D. recieved in theoretical physics from Caltech by the age of 20, early scientific work was mainly in high-energy physics, quantum field theory, and cosmology, and included several now-classic results,

10 More about Stephen Wolfram 3/6
at Eton he published an article on particle physics, claimed to be bored he left Eton in 1976 without graduating, at age 17 he entered St John‘s College, Oxford, but again found lectures "awful„ and leaving in 1978 without graduating,

11 More about Stephen Wolfram 4/6
at Oxford he published a widely cited paper on heavy quark production at age 18 and nine other papers, he received a Ph.D. in particle physics from the California Institute of Technology at age 20, received one of the first MacArthur awards in 1981 at age 21,

12 More about Stephen Wolfram 5/6
his work with Geoffrey Fox on the theory of the strong interaction is still used today in experimental particle physics, he founded the journal Complex Systems in 1987.

13 More about Stephen Wolfram 6/6
in 1986 he started to develop the computer algebra system Mathematica, which was first released in 1988, when he left academia, in 1987 he co-founded a company Wolfram Research which continues to develop and market the program (he‘s currently the majority shareholder).

14 Wolfram Alpha …how to use it…
Just type what you want; Wolfram Alpha does the rest …

15 Comparation Google Wikipedia Wolfram Alpha Mathematica

16 Thank you for your attention