Stephen Wolfram

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Mathematics. But in the 1600s came the idea of modeling things with mathematical formulas—in which time enters, but basically just as a coordinate value. We won’t always be able to make a simple human—or, say, mathematical—narrative to explain or predict what a system will do. These are all ways to formalize the world.

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Computer Physics Mathematics Achievement 131

The Maker Mom

JANUARY 17, 2024

World Scholars Academy World Scholars Academy hosts a two-week intensive mathematics course for kids 15-18, administered by a doctoral candidate from Cambridge, Evgeny Goncharov. They’ll enjoy ten classes over two weeks, where they gain a better understanding of proof-based mathematics.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 23, 2023

There’s a big example of this historically, in mathematics. But then mathematical notation was invented, and math took off—with the development of algebra, calculus, and eventually all the various mathematical sciences. Back before about 500 years ago, pretty much the only way to “express math” was in natural language.

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Computer Mathematics Math Achievement 145

Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 29, 2024

Pleasantly enough, given our framework, many modern areas of mathematical physics seemed to fit right in.) I had realized that one of the places the ideas of the Physics Project should apply was to the foundations of mathematics, and to metamathematics. And now the responsibility had fallen on us to do this.

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Physics Computer Biology Mathematics 110

National Science Foundation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In its current form, school algebra serves as a gatekeeper to higher-level mathematics. Researchers and policy makers have pushed to open that gate—providing more students access to algebra, focusing in particular on those students historically denied access to higher-level mathematics. Berry & Larson, 2019; Levitt, 2019).

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Algebra Mathematics Flexibility Research 76

Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And—it should be said at the outset—we’re still only at the very beginning of nailing down those technical details and setting up the difficult mathematics and formalism they involve.) Mathematically this can be thought of as being like decomposing the ruliad structure in terms of fibrations and foliations.). Experiencing the Ruliad.

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Physics Mathematics Computer Construction 116

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Many would say that modern exact science was launched in the 1600s with the introduction of what we can call the “ mathematical paradigm ”: the idea that things in the world can be described by mathematical equations—and that their behavior can be determined by finding solutions to these equations.

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Physics Science Sciences Mathematics 65

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Many would say that modern exact science was launched in the 1600s with the introduction of what we can call the “ mathematical paradigm ”: the idea that things in the world can be described by mathematical equations—and that their behavior can be determined by finding solutions to these equations.

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Science Sciences Physics Mathematics 60

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

And at first I did so in the main scientific paradigm I knew : models based on mathematics and mathematical equations. From mathematics. Mathematical physics. By the late 1970s, though, there were other initiatives emerging, particularly coming from mathematics and mathematical physics. Synergetics.

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Computer Mathematics Sciences Science 55

ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2023

That little girl went on to study math and economics in college, then became a math teacher and a teacher-coach. Today, Joseph is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University and the director of the Joseph Mathematics Education Research Lab. She was teaching a calculus class.

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Mathematics Calculus Math Algebra 274

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). It explains that III has four divisions: Mathematical and Programming Services, Behavioral Science, Operations, and “New York”. It says that “From a one-man operation [in 1962], I.I.I.

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Computing Education Research Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

My argument is that computer science was originally invented to be taught to everyone, but not for economic advantage. Forsythe argued (in a 1968 article) that the most valuable parts of a scientific or technical education were facility with natural language, mathematics, and computer science. It was an amazing event.

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Computer Science Computer Sciences Science 139