Argumentation Calculus Computer Science 
ED Surge
DECEMBER 10, 2024
When districts slot students into math classes based on ability they send conspicuous messages to those on the lower track that they are not smart enough, says Ho Nguyen, who was a K-12 math and computer science program administrator in San Francisco during the district's detracking attempt. Nevertheless, the attempt was tense.
Robert Talbert, Ph.D.
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
If anything, over the past seven years, my feelings about the centrality of computing in the mathematics major have gotten even more entrenched. First, I know more computer science and computer programming now than I did in 2007. These days the computer plays a front-and-center role in all of my classes.
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Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Some involve alternate functional forms; others involve introducing additional functions, or allowing multiple arguments to our function f. But it turns out that the fact that this can happen depends critically on the Ackermann function having more than one argument—so that one can construct the “diagonal” f [ m , m , m ].
Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Since the standard Wolfram Language evaluator evaluates arguments first (“leftmost-innermost evaluation”), it therefore won’t terminate in this case—even though there are branches in the multiway evaluation (corresponding to “outermost evaluation”) that do terminate. As the Version 1.0
Stephen Wolfram
MARCH 7, 2022
One can view a symbolic expression such as f[g[x][y, h[z]], w] as a hierarchical or tree structure , in which at every level some particular “head” (like f ) is “applied to” one or more arguments. and zero arguments: α[ ]. From a computer science perspective, we can think of it as being like a type hierarchy.
Stephen Wolfram
AUGUST 29, 2024
In the end—after all sorts of philosophical arguments, and an analysis of actual historical data —the answer was: “It’s Complicated”. And there are also foundational questions in computer science. Lots of college students these days say they want to study “computer science”. OK, so that’s a lot of projects.
Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
At the level of individual events, ideas from the theory and practice of computation are useful. Events are like functions, whose “arguments” are incoming tokens, and whose output is one or more outgoing tokens. And the same issue arose for Alonzo Church’s lambda calculus (introduced around 1930).
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