Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 29, 2022

Needless to say, you can do this computationally—though the “calculus” of what’s been defined so far in Unicode is fairly bizarre: &#10005. it’s now accessible from the button in the new default notebook toolbar. Now we can use the path function to make a “spiralling” tour video: College Calculus. Fractional Calculus.

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Futurum

MAY 16, 2023

For instance, I had access to a CT scanner to scan the cores, while Molly’s lab has equipment to study grain size and X-ray diffraction.” A high productivity of phytoplankton in the surface water above a sediment suggests the area was not covered by thick ice, as they need access to sunlight to photosynthesise,” explains Denise. “We

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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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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It seemed as if there was a vast new domain that had suddenly been made accessible to scientific exploration. For three centuries theoretical models had been based on the fairly narrow set of constructs provided by mathematical equations, and particularly calculus. I myself was still only 25 years old.

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Maydm

JUNE 11, 2021

But again, to connect this and to make it accessible, right? To make STEM accessible is something that’s so important. I struggled in chemistry and I got very little support and so that meant that I couldn’t go on and take physics. Not being able to have access to the resources, the support, et cetera.

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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.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

And from seeing how things play out in the rather accessible and concrete area of expression evaluation, we’ll be able to develop more intuition about fundamental physics and about other areas (like metamathematics ) where the ideas of our Physics Project can be applied.

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Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When you do operations on Around numbers the “errors” are combined using a certain calculus of errors that’s effectively based on Gaussian distributions—and the results you get are always in some sense statistical. Also in the area of calculus we’ve added various conveniences to the handling of differential equations. In Version 13.0

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Once one has the idea of “equilibrium”, one can then start to think of its properties as purely being functions of certain parameters—and this opens up all sorts of calculus-based mathematical opportunities. But now the computation is “less dense”, and seemingly more accessible to human interpretation.

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