You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.

The application programming interface (API) allows other applications to extend and enhance Alpha. He produced a series of papers systematically investigating the class of elementary cellular automata conceiving the Wolfram code a naming system for one-dimensional cellular automata and a classification scheme for the complexity of their behavior. SMP was further developed and marketed commercially by Inference Corp.

Stephen Wolfram (born 29 August 1959) is a British scientist and the chief designer of the Mathematica software application and the Wolfram Alpha answer engine.