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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

However, in writing this piece, I decided to find out what was actually true—so I asked one of the writers of the movie, Walter Parkes. But in any case, it’s interesting to trace the actual development of Ed’s ideas. But for our efforts to trace history, Banks’s June 1970 report has a number of interesting elements.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

The Carnots’ father was close to Napoleon, and Hippolyte explains that when Sadi was a young child he ended up being babysat by “ Madame Bonaparte ”—but one day wandered off, and was found inspecting the operation of a nearby mill, and quizzing the miller about it.

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