Stephen Wolfram

The point of tools, of... I think not as well as he might have done.

I mean, I think that... But...

He was actually my first company, which was also involved with more mathematical computation kinds of things.

He had lots of advice about the technical side of what we should do and so on.

Do you have examples, memories, or thoughts?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

He had all kinds of...

in the business of doing sort of, you know, one of the hard things in math is doing integrals and so on, right?

And so he had his own elaborate ways to do integrals and so on.

He had his own ways of thinking about sort of getting intuition about how math works.

And so his sort of meta idea was

take those intuitional methods and make a computer follow those intuitional methods.

Now, it turns out, for the most part, like when we do integrals and things, what we do is we build this kind of bizarre industrial machine that turns every integral into, you know, products of Mayor G functions and generates this very elaborate thing.

And actually, the big problem is turning the results into something a human will understand.

It's not, quote, doing the integral.

And actually, Feynman did understand that to some extent.

And I

I'm embarrassed to say he once gave me this big pile of, you know, calculational methods for particle physics that he worked out in the 50s.

And he said, you know, it's more used to you than to me type thing.

And I was like, I've intended to look at it and give it back.