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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Or perhaps, amidst a particularly challenging calculus problem, you’ve questioned how this abstract world of numbers and symbols could possibly influence your future career? College and Mathematics: Challenges The Complexity Cliff Remember the first time you looked at a calculus problem in college? Well, you’re not alone.

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Futurum

JULY 13, 2022

There are many branches of maths, including algebra, geometry, calculus and statistics. WHAT ARE YOUR PROUDEST CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR? WHAT DOES A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A MATHEMATICIAN LOOK LIKE? Many of the classes I took didn’t end up directly contributing to my career.

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Futurum

JUNE 28, 2022

This is particularly impressive when one considers that this is achieved without even knowing how non-stationary the environment is. For example, you could be a software engineer at a tech start-up, an analyst in the finance industry, a research scientist in an industrial lab or a professor at a university.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Part of what this achieves is to generalize beyond traditional mathematics the kind of constructs that can appear in models. To say something more global requires the whole knitting together of “economic space” achieved by all the local transactions in the network. It’s very much like in the emergence of physical space.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Part of what this achieves is to generalize beyond traditional mathematics the kind of constructs that can appear in models. To say something more global requires the whole knitting together of “economic space” achieved by all the local transactions in the network. It’s very much like in the emergence of physical space.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). But I think at least in the later part of his life, Ed felt his greatest achievements related to cellular automata and in particular his idea that the universe is a giant cellular automaton.

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Maydm

JUNE 11, 2021

“Miss Winnie, I tried to sign up for AP calculus and my counselor told me that, you know, she asked me ‘Are you sure you want to take that?'” And you support them with your time, your finances, your expertise, and your resources? And the reason I’m actually not an engineer today is because of that, right?

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