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The Role of Mathematics in Education

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The Role of Mathematics in Education: What Professions You Can Get in the Future Have you ever found yourself pondering the real-world applications of those algebraic formulas or geometric theorems you spent hours trying to decipher in school? But how does this abstract discipline translate into tangible career paths?

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Numbers and networks: how can we use mathematics to assess the resilience of global supply chains?

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There are many branches of maths, including algebra, geometry, calculus and statistics. Linear algebra, statistics and computer programming are particularly useful. “If WHAT ARE YOUR PROUDEST CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR? WHAT DOES A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A MATHEMATICIAN LOOK LIKE? . PATHWAY FROM SCHOOL TO MATHEMATICS.

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Can machine learning cope with the erratic and uncertain nature of the real world?

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This is particularly impressive when one considers that this is achieved without even knowing how non-stationary the environment is. For example, you could be a software engineer at a tech start-up, an analyst in the finance industry, a research scientist in an industrial lab or a professor at a university.

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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). Then McCarthy started to explain ways a computer could do algebra. It was all algebra. Ed was assigned to an airbase in Arizona , and by the summer of 1955 he had qualified as a fighter pilot.

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Even beyond Physics: Introducing Multicomputation as a Fourth General Paradigm for Theoretical Science

Stephen Wolfram

Part of what this achieves is to generalize beyond traditional mathematics the kind of constructs that can appear in models. To say something more global requires the whole knitting together of “economic space” achieved by all the local transactions in the network. It’s very much like in the emergence of physical space.

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Multicomputation: A Fourth Paradigm for Theoretical Science

Stephen Wolfram

Part of what this achieves is to generalize beyond traditional mathematics the kind of constructs that can appear in models. To say something more global requires the whole knitting together of “economic space” achieved by all the local transactions in the network. It’s very much like in the emergence of physical space.

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