Stephen Wolfram
This goo was worth a point in October 2024.
publication date: Wednesday, October 16, 2024 (part of October 2024)
category: 
Inventions
clue: If you want to know how to add two violent animals together (as in his last name), ask his search engine.
explanation: Wolfram is a computer scientist and mathematician who developed a number of technologies including Mathematica, a computational search engine for use in math. more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Richard Slominsky
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