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Mathematical physics

Mathematical physics

Bright ideas and their architects

14 Dec 2016
Taken from the December 2016 issue of Physics World

Tony Mann reviews Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives and Ideas of Some Notable People by Stephen Wolfram

Different zonohedra shapes created by mathematician Russell Towle
Mathematician and 'idea maker' Russell Towle made these polyhedra using Mathematica. (Courtesy: MIT License: Russell Towle/Wolfram Demonstrations Project)
Stephen Wolfram was a child prodigy, receiving his PhD in particle physics at the age of 20. His sub

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Tony Mann is director of the Greenwich Maths Centre at the University of Greenwich, UK
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