History of Science and Technology Q&A (September 22, 2021)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Combinators, the Last Idea of Schonfinkle's, of Removing All Mention of Variables
The idea of there is a fixed machine, and it is capable of just being given different starting conditions. He didn't have that really, although he was sort of circling around it a charles babbage with his analytical engine. The final idea of schonfinkle's, of remove all mention of variables, just makes something that us humans just have a really hard time understanding. Many of those ideas have not been widely used elsewhere.
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