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by chx 2528 days ago
> I'm sometimes surprised he's not more popular on HN than he is.

This is a guy who have filed a patent on pure mathematics https://patents.google.com/patent/US4809202 and it was nowhere near original, compare to https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0167278984... and the folks 'round here are not hot on software patents and this is much worse.

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Looks like the company he worked for filed that, not him?
Well, the inventor is listed as Stephen Wolfram ... I mean legally it wasn't him but in practice...