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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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 what makes mathematics the lingua franca of computer science?

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Futurum

JUNE 28, 2022

This is particularly impressive when one considers that this is achieved without even knowing how non-stationary the environment is. Machine learners use a mix of mathematics and computer science to develop and test their algorithms. WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO BECOME A COMPUTER SCIENTIST? HOW GROUND-BREAKING IS THIS RESEARCH?

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Artificial Intelligence Learning Computer Science Computer 88

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

But the computer let me discover just by systematic enumeration the 2-state, 3-color machine that in 2007 was proved universal (and, yes, it’s the simplest possible universal Turing machine). In 2000 I was interested in what the simplest possible axiom system for logic (Boolean algebra) might be. But what happens with other paths?

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Science Sciences Computer Mathematics 122

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 68

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Part of what this achieves is to generalize beyond traditional mathematics the kind of constructs that can appear in models. But there is something else too—and it’s from this that the full computational paradigm emerges. The systems can be based on Boolean algebra, database updating or other kinds of ultimately computational rules.

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Physics Science Sciences Mathematics 65

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Part of what this achieves is to generalize beyond traditional mathematics the kind of constructs that can appear in models. But there is something else too—and it’s from this that the full computational paradigm emerges. The systems can be based on Boolean algebra, database updating or other kinds of ultimately computational rules.

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