Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People by Wolfram Stephen

Author:Wolfram, Stephen [Wolfram, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biography / Science
ISBN: 9781579550059
Publisher: Wolfram Media, Inc.
Published: 2016-07-07T23:00:00+00:00

* Originally written as a review of Mandelbrot’s posthumous autobiography, The Fractalist.

Steve Jobs

October 6, 2011

I’m so sad this evening—as millions are—to hear of Steve Jobs’s death. Scattered over the last quarter century, I learned much from Steve Jobs, and was proud to consider him a friend. And indeed, he contributed in various ways to all three of my major life projects so far: Mathematica, A New Kind of Science and Wolfram|Alpha.

I first met Steve Jobs in 1987, when he was quietly building his first NeXT computer, and I was quietly building the first version of Mathematica. A mutual friend had made the introduction, and Steve Jobs wasted no time in saying that he was planning to make the definitive computer for higher education, and he wanted Mathematica to be part of it. I don’t now remember the details of our first meeting, but at the end of it, Steve gave me his business card, which tonight I found duly still sitting in my files:

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