Title: Idea Makers
Subtitle: Personal Perspectives on the Lives and Ideas of Some Notable People
Description: This book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today's most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective on the lives and achievements of a selection of intriguing figures from the history of science and technology. Weaving together his immersive interest in people and history with insights gathered from his own experiences, Stephen Wolfram gives an ennobling look at some of the individuals whose ideas and creations have helped shape our world today.

From his recollections about working with Richard Feynman to his insights about how Alan Turing's work has unleashed generations of innovation to the true role of Ada Lovelace in the history of computing, Wolfram takes the reader into the minds and lives of great thinkers and creators of the past few centuries—and shows how great achievements can arise from dramatically different personalities and life trajectories.
Subjects: Science, Biography, Scientists, History, Scientists, biography, Science, history
People: Richard Feynman, Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), John von Neumann, George Boole, Ada Lovelace, Steve Jobs, Marvin Minsky, Russell Towle, Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), Alfred Whitehead, Richard Crandall, Solomon Golomb, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Freiherr von (1646-1716), Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar (1887-1920)