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Is Economics STEM – Why Colleges Want Economics to Be a STEM Major

STEM Education Guide

Recently, five of the eight Ivy League universities have reclassified their economics degrees from social science to science, technology, math, and engineering (STEM). Economics Employs Math for Concise Communication There’s no doubt that economics is part of the social sciences, given that it studies human behavior.

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STEM Programs: How to Choose the Right Major

STEM Education Guide

It’s an acronym that encompasses science, technology, engineering, and math. According to a report from the Pew Research Center, more than 30% of Americans said they would encourage high school students to pursue jobs in a STEM-related field. A student can follow scientist role models through other avenues or on social media.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

He starts off by saying about Carnot’s book: The idea which serves as a basis of his researches seems to me to be both fertile and beyond question; his demonstrations are founded on the absurdity of the possibility of creating motive power or heat out of nothing.

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

And so it was that in 1985 I began to promote the idea of a new field of “complex systems research”, or, for short “complexity”—fueled by the discoveries I’d made about things like cellular automata. And while they used computers as practical tools, they never made the jump to seeing computation as a core paradigm for thinking about science.

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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). In the mid-1990s, researching history for my book A New Kind of Science , (as I’ll discuss below) I had a detailed email exchange and long phone conversation with Ed about this. I made all my points.

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Delve Talks: Winnie Karanja, Maydm

Maydm

As a high school student, Winnie had a passion for both math and the social sciences. Her teachers pushed her into the “easier” path of social sciences rather than encourage her interest in STEM subjects. And throughout my sort of high school experience, I’d been, you know, passionate about social sciences.

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Computer Science was always supposed to be taught to everyone, and it wasn’t about getting a job: A historical perspective

Computing Education Research Blog

He argued that you can’t think about integral calculus the same after you learn about computational iteration. He was foreshadowing modern computational science, and in particular, computational social science. He described efforts at Carnegie Tech to build economics models and learn through simulating them.