Stephen Wolfram: Physicist and Youngest MacArthur Award Winner

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🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Have you ever wondered what it's like to get a PhD in Physics at twenty and win a MacArthur Award at 21? You'll get to find out with this episode's interview of Remarkable People with Stephen Wolfram. Saying he is a "physicist" is like saying Labron James is a "basketball player." If you're a math geek, you've probably used a product he created called Mathematica. He's also built a knowledge engine called Wolfram Alpha that you have used in Siri, Alexa, Bing, or DuckDuckGo. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:44.3	Hello, this is Guy Kawasaki. Welcome to the Remarkable People podcast. I meet with Steve
0:51.2	Wolfram every 10 years or so. It takes that long to recover from interactions with him
0:56.1	because his brain operates at approximately 10 times the speed of mind. He attended Eden and left without
1:03.4	completing a degree. He attended Oxford and left without completing a degree. Academic misfit? I don't
1:10.2	think so. After all, he then went to the California
1:13.1	Institute of Technology and got a PhD in particle physics in a year. All this happened by the time
1:18.9	he was 20. Wolfram, by the way, is the youngest MacArthur Award winner at the tender age of 21.
1:26.9	But did you know that Wolfram tried to revolutionize the game
1:30.2	of cricket? Keep listening and you'll hear how. If I explain all the things he's accomplished
1:36.0	in math and physics, it would be longer than the interview part of this podcast. If you're into math
1:41.0	or physics, you may have used this software application called Mathematica.
1:45.0	I met him because of this program.
1:47.0	I was one of Apple's Macintosh Software Evangelist, and my job was to help Macintosh developers like Wolfram.
1:53.0	You are probably using his computational knowledge engine, aka search engine for us mortals.
1:58.0	It's called Wolfram Alpha, and it's used by Bing, Duck Duck
2:02.3	Go, Siri, and Alexa. If you've seen the science fiction movie Arrival, Wolfram and his son
2:08.7	helped create the alien language for the movie. We met at my house when he was on tour for his
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