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Nature 417, 216-218 (16 May 2002) | doi:10.1038/417216a

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Stephen Wolfram: What kind of science is this?

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Mathematical prodigy Stephen Wolfram has laboured for a decade on what he claims is a revolutionary book. Jim Giles meets a supremely confident scientific loner, but finds expert opinion on the work's merits divided.

To all intents and purposes, Stephen Wolfram dropped out of the research community more than a decade ago. Since 1988, he has neither published a scientific paper nor attended a conference.