From Angèle and John Hamel, University of Southampton
Southampton
We were astonished that Stephen Wolfram thinks most of the important research
in his field is done by industry and that “universities are pretty secondary
entities” (“Millionaires’ row”, 14 September, p 33).
Is he not aware that Mathematica’s nearest competitor, Maple, was developed
in 1980 at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and continues to be closely
associated with the university? Or is this a subtle attempt to discount the
competition?
