Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories
Stephen Wolfram
AUGUST 22, 2023
It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). His father ’s university engineering studies had been cut short by the Russian Revolution, and he now had a one-man wholesale electronic parts business. Petersburg; his mother in Odessa ; they met in LA).
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