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The Mathematica Story: A Scrapbook

Over Three Decades of Contributions to Invention, Discovery and Education

Bernard Beauzamy, Chairman and CEO, Société de Calcul Mathématique SA, Paris, France

Thanks a lot for giving me an opportunity to contribute to the Mathematica story. It was in the early 90’s. I was a regular visitor to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and I did some work about the size of coefficients in polynomial decompositions which turned out to be useful in the algorithms used by Mathematica.

I remember that, at that time, I met Stephen Wolfram in Urbana, and, some years later, Conrad Wolfram in Paris.

I would like to emphasize the fact that Mathematica has certainly been a useful tool for research and teaching, but, not only that, it brought new questions to fundamental research. It brought new directions for research, which are still active today. So, I wish all the best to the Mathematica community for the next 25 years.