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He was a child prodigy,
publishing his first paper at 15. Now Stephen Wolfram says he has created a new
kind of science based on simple computer programs rather than equations. It's a
bold claim, but it has taken him 20 years--ten of them thinking and working late
into the night, and publishing nothing. By a nice irony, that intellectual space
was bought by the millions he made out of Mathematica, a computer program that
makes complicated mathematics doable for ordinary mortals. Now, at 41, he's busy
gearing himself up for the glare of publicity as he prepares to publish the
fruit of all those years. Marcus Chown caught up with Wolfram--at 3
am
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