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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Or perhaps, amidst a particularly challenging calculus problem, you’ve questioned how this abstract world of numbers and symbols could possibly influence your future career? College and Mathematics: Challenges The Complexity Cliff Remember the first time you looked at a calculus problem in college? Well, you’re not alone.

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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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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). “Lick” Licklider —who persuaded Ed to join BBN to “teach them about computers”. 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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Maydm

JUNE 11, 2021

And so being able to just get some great people at the table, some of the amazing sponsors that we have, and I would say the successes have really been at this point, having students who worked with us, you know, back in 2016 to now see them in college and pursuing computer science. I’m a prospective computer science major there.”

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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. And the same issue arose for Alonzo Church’s lambda calculus (introduced around 1930).

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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. And the same issue arose for Alonzo Church’s lambda calculus (introduced around 1930).

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