Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

So many discoveries, so many inventions, so much achieved, so much learned. And key to everything we do is leveraging what we have already done—often taking what in earlier years was a pinnacle of technical achievement, and now using it as a routine building block to reach a level that could barely even be imagined before.

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Computer Calculus Construction Accessibility 102

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 1, 2022

This is the third installment of a series of posts focusing on the Four Pillars of Alternative Grading : The Four Pillars are a model that seeks to identify the elements that alternative forms of grading have in common elements whose primary goals are improving grading and making it focused on student growth.

Primary 52

Primary Mathematics Argumentation Algebra 52

Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Ed was never officially a “test pilot”, but he told me stories about figuring out how to take his plane higher than anyone else—and achieving weightlessness by flying his plane in a perfect free-fall trajectory by maintaining an eraser floating in midair in front of him. Then McCarthy started to explain ways a computer could do algebra.

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Computer Physics Science Sciences 67

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

In 2000 I was interested in what the simplest possible axiom system for logic (Boolean algebra) might be. of what’s now Wolfram Language —we were trying to develop algorithms to compute hundreds of mathematical special functions over very broad ranges of arguments. Back in 1987—as part of building Version 1.0

Science 122

Science Sciences Computer Mathematics 122

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.

Physics 64

Physics Science Sciences Mathematics 64

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.

Science 64

Science Sciences Physics Mathematics 64