Conrad Wolfram (born 10 June 1970) is a British technologist and businessman known for his work in information technology and mathematics education reform.

[3][4][5][6] Born in Oxford, England, in 1970, Wolfram was educated at Dragon School and Eton College where he learned to program on a BBC Micro.

[7] He was an undergraduate student at Pembroke College, Cambridge[8] where he studied the Natural Sciences tripos graduating with a Master of Arts degree from the University of Cambridge.[when?]

Wolfram has been a proponent of Computer-Based Math—a reform of mathematics education to "rebuild the curriculum assuming computers exist.

[24][25][26] The book summarises Wolfram's thoughts on the current state of mathematics education and sets out a vision for a new core subject based on computational thinking.