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The Role of Mathematics in Education

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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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Is Computer Science STEM – The Link Between the Two

STEM Education Guide

However, one thing that’s often overlooked is computer science education, an incredibly essential subject and skill in today’s digital era. While the science aspect (chemistry, biology, and physics) and mathematics (calculus and algebra) is a breeze to figure out, the engineering and technology aspects are less straightforward.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

It’s not obvious that it would be feasible to find the path of the steepest descent on the “weight landscape” But calculus comes to the rescue. As we mentioned above, one can always think of a neural net as computing a mathematical function—that depends on its inputs, and its weights. There are several key parts.

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Even beyond Physics: Introducing Multicomputation as a Fourth General Paradigm for Theoretical Science

Stephen Wolfram

And in the end, maybe it just takes a different kind of “chemical observer” (and maybe one more embedded in the system and operating at a molecular scale) to be able to understand the “overall architecture” of many of the molecular computations that go on in biology. (By How can one make a multicomputational model for this process?

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Multicomputation: A Fourth Paradigm for Theoretical Science

Stephen Wolfram

And in the end, maybe it just takes a different kind of “chemical observer” (and maybe one more embedded in the system and operating at a molecular scale) to be able to understand the “overall architecture” of many of the molecular computations that go on in biology. (By How can one make a multicomputational model for this process?

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

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). “Lick” Licklider —who persuaded Ed to join BBN to “teach them about computers”. Nowadays we’d call it the trie (or prefix tree) data structure. But his name shows up from time to time.

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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

Because it implies that whatever “computational parametrization” or “computational description language” one uses for the ruliad, one will almost always get something that can be viewed as “computationally equivalent”. But what about other models of computation—like cellular automata or register machines or lambda calculus?

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