Wolfram provides an instructional screencast video to help you get started.
Wolfram is also the author of A New Kind of Science, a paradigm-shattering work that has been compared to Newton’s Principia Mathematica. WolframAlpha is the brainchild of Stephen Wolfram, a British physicist and former child prodigy who, in 1988, created the Mathematica computer program used by scientists, researchers and engineers to perform complex mathematics using large volumes of data. If you tried the example in the previous section, you’re already started using WolframAlpha. WolframAlpha searches its own huge database of factual data to find the correct information and computes the answer from structured data. For example, all the sites that match “What are you?” including links to the rock band The Who, Pearl Gaskin’s interviews, and images that contain the words “What”“are” and “you.” How does this differ from a search engine like Google? If you type a natural language query like this into Google’s search box, you’ll get something entirely different – a list of web pages that match what you typed. WolframAlpha responds, “I am a computational knowledge engine.” This is known as a natural language query –- it takes your English sentence and interprets it. Go to the WolframAlpha site and type What is WolframAlpha? into the search box: Let’s ask WolframAlpha what it thinks it is. When to use WolframAlpha rather than Google.Use the following topics to learn Wolfram basics: Are Superintelligent Financial Markets Coming.
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