Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People
by Stephen Wolfram
Buy on AmazonThis book, Idea Makers , is written from an insider. It is the real thing on several accounts. Primo, Wolfram deserves to be in the book as an ‘idea maker’, in his own right. Secondo, Wolfram is the developer of a new way to do (useful) mathematics, an entirely new method, which allows us to tinker with mathematics, something that is an anathema to purists. Thus he depicts Ramanujan, not with the usual mathematical prism of the theorem crowds, but as someone who, starting with intuitions, doe...
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"This book, Idea Makers , is written from an insider. It is the real thing on several accounts. Primo, Wolfram deserves to be in the book as an ‘idea maker’, in his own right. Secondo, Wolfram is the developer of a new way to do (useful) mathematics, an entirely new method, which allows us to tinker with mathematics, something that is an anathema to purists. Thus he depicts Ramanujan, not with the usual mathematical prism of the theorem crowds, but as someone who, starting with intuitions, doe..."
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