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In Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, noted mathematicians Elwyn Berlekamp, John Conway, and Richard Guy have this dedication: "To Martin Gardner, who has brought more mathematics to more millions than anyone else." Martin Gardner passed away on May 22, 2010, and I talk about my own introduction to his work at the Wolfram|Alpha Blog. On May 21, I was asked for the best book about math for a young adult. I suggested Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games (CD-ROM), which contains his 15-book canon. In my opinion, it's still the best book series for sparking an interest in mathematics. In a way, Wolfram Research has been trying to beat Martin in the noble goal of bringing math and science to the millions. We've partnered with CBS/Paramount for the NUMB3RS TV show, our CEO Stephen Wolfram wrote A New Kind of Science, co-founder Theodore Gray made what I think is the best periodic table in the world, and we built MathWorld, the most comprehensive math encyclopedia on the web.

When we released Version 6 in May 2007, Mathematica was reinvented. We also reinvented something else that Mathematica has long been known for: its extensive and detailed product documentation. While some of you appreciated the recrafting of our tutorial content as stand-alone electronic documents, others missed the narrative of the book, and you let us know it. Which is a good thing, because it led to the creation of the Wolfram Mathematica Tutorial Collection.

The teams behind Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha would like to invite you to the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London, United Kingdom on June 9, 2010 for the London Computational Knowledge Summit.

We use this blog as a vehicle to highlight many of our big ideas and discoveries. Today we're pleased to share with you Stephen Wolfram's talk from the 2010 TED Conference in Long Beach, California, where he talked about the tools and methods he's spent the last 30 years developing in his quest to explore computational knowledge. TED, an organization devoted to bringing together the technology, entertainment, and design industries' most innovative thinkers to present "Ideas Worth Sharing", recently shared Stephen's ideas with the world as a "TED Talk of the Day". In the signature 18-minute video, Stephen discusses how his lifelong scientific pursuits led to the development of Mathematica, A New Kind of Science, and the computational knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha. He continues, asking new questions and proposing a fourth project---discovering our physical universe through our computational universe. "Will we find the whole of physics? I don't know for sure. But I think at this point it's sort of almost embarrassing not to at least try." ---Stephen Wolfram Click to view the transcript and slides from Stephen's talk.

In 2002, Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science (NKS) was published. Soon after, Wolfram Research began hosting annual Summer Schools centered around doing research on the topics and methods introduced by the book. The first NKS Summer School was held in 2003 at Brown University. It's that time of year again—when interested individuals all around the world apply to the NKS Summer School. By 2008, the NKS Summer School was already well established. I was one of those interested individuals, having completed my master's degree in mathematics the year before. I had been introduced to A New Kind of Science by a good friend, back when I was taking advanced undergraduate courses in physics. So when I came across the NKS Summer School in the winter of 2007, I was eager to apply.

Over the last few weeks, we've shared with you highlights from Stephen Wolfram's keynote at the International Mathematica User Conference 2009. These highlights included a look at what's in the research and development pipeline for Mathematica and future directions of Wolfram|Alpha. In this final video of our series, Stephen shares how the developments of Wolfram|Alpha will be integrated with Mathematica. (For more of Stephen's keynote, please see parts 1, 2, and 3 of the series.)

Stephen Wolfram highlighted several future directions of Wolfram technologies during his keynote address at the International Mathematica User Conference 2009. Among them were new developments surrounding Wolfram|Alpha. In the following video, Stephen outlines some of the directions in the works for Wolfram|Alpha and gives a sneak peek at one soon-to-be-released service. (To hear more of Stephen's keynote, please see part 1 and part 2 of this series.)