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OCTOBER 23, 2019

Bitsize is the BBC’s collection of free short videos and lessons (they’re all bite-sized) on over fifty subjects taught in Primary or Secondary education. Topics include languages, music, technology, social studies, science, engineering, maths, journalism, and more.

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Education Education Earth science Government 186

Futurum

OCTOBER 4, 2022

. • At school, study maths, physics, biology and chemistry. Chi Hwan recommends taking courses in linear algebra, multivariate calculus, chemistry, statistics, dynamics, electricity, magnetism, physics and programming while at university. Some universities will offer degrees in biomedical engineering.

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Biomedical Engineering Engineering Research Research 107

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

So did that mean we were “finished” with calculus? Somewhere along the way we built out discrete calculus , asymptotic expansions and integral transforms. And in Version 14 there are significant advances around calculus. Another advance has to do with expanding the range of “pre-packaged” calculus operations.

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Computer Calculus Construction Accessibility 100

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But then—basically starting in the early 1980s—there was a burst of progress based on a new idea (of which, yes, I seem to have ultimately been the primary initiator): the idea of using simple programs , rather than mathematical equations, as the basis for models of things in nature and elsewhere. Chemistry / Molecular Biology.

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Physics Science Sciences Mathematics 67

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But then—basically starting in the early 1980s—there was a burst of progress based on a new idea (of which, yes, I seem to have ultimately been the primary initiator): the idea of using simple programs , rather than mathematical equations, as the basis for models of things in nature and elsewhere. Chemistry / Molecular Biology.

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Science Sciences Physics Mathematics 61

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. There’s lots of rhetoric: The applicability of the calculus of probabilities to a particular case can of course never be proved with precision.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 91

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). In 2015 Ed told me a nice story about his time at Caltech: In 1952–53, I was a student in Linus Pauling’s class where he lectured Freshman Chemistry at Caltech. But how can one work out the n ∞ case?

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Computer Physics Sciences Science 70