Tinkering his way to innovation
(WorldNews China)

Theodore Gray abandoned an academic path to co-found a software company and write best-sellers that explain science to nonscientists After co-founding Wolfram Research, a software company in central Illinois that makes technical computing program Mathematica and the search engine Wolfram Alpha, which is incorporated into Apple`s Siri, Theodore Gray also wrote a series of science books and apps that are best-sellers around the world. His first book, The Elements, which describes each chemical element in detail with beautiful photos, was published in December 2009. The book was on the list of 100 books recommended by China`s Ministry of Education in 2012 and has sold more than 1.5 million...