The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

History of Science and Technology Q&A for Kids and Others (January 27, 2021)


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Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa

Questions include: Did you ever meet any of the Manhattan project spies? (Theodore Hall, Klaus Fuchs, Alan Nunn May) - ​Did you have any interactions with Aaron Swartz? - Is it possible that while moving from the 20 original equations used by Maxwell to the 4 we use today we treated something as negligible by mistake because quantum theory was not around? - Did you meet Elon Musk or Steve Jobs? - What did you do and who did you meet at the Institute for advanced study (did not realise you went there until reading your article about Tini Veltman). - If you make fundamental breakthroughs in Homotopy type theory I bet IAS would be very interested - Did you meet any person related to the "Human Genome project"? Eric Lander, Craig Venter...? - Did you interact with Claude Shannon? - The french composer Erik Satie would only eat white food too - Any anecdotes about Ed witten or Leonard Susskind? - Are you familiar with the work of Roy Frieden about Physics from Fisher Information? What do you think about it? - What's a good place to get one genome sequenced? - Do you know how Joseph Fourier developed the math that lead to Fourier transformation? - ​IAS was the perfect place for Kurt godel Did you read godels Citizenship hearing? He pointed out logical inconsistencies in the American Constitution - Could you give us Feynman and Steve Jobs couple of anecdotes? - The Book "Faster than thought" (1953) has the following Leibniz quote "It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used". It seems that you have the same opinion as Leibniz.

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