ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Around the country, “ math wars ” are raging over attempts to increase equity by playing down calculus from the curriculum in favor of statistics or computer science, or by delaying when students take algebra. But there’s also a quieter revolution taking place that applies a different strategy to achieve the same principles.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

In 2000 I was interested in what the simplest possible axiom system for logic (Boolean algebra) might be. We know the ones that correspond to “known science”. Solving Equations with AI In traditional mathematical science the typical setup is: here are some equations for a system; solve them to find out how the system behaves.

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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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