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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

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This placed the responsibility for learning on the students, using teacher-prescribed methods, even though decades of research screamed that lots of kids perform better with images than pages filled with black-and-white text. ” Kudos to their ability to achieve that goal. Futures Channel.

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

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I am also interested in bringing more researchers from diverse fields together in this discussion,” says Zach. Researchers from all disciplines will have to work together to find solutions to these problems, and mathematicians like Zach will have a big role to play. FIELD OF RESEARCH: Mathematics. Math really is everywhere!”

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century. There’s a discussion about H for systems that interact, and how there’s an equilibrium value achieved. It’s exciting now, of course, to be able to use the latest 21st-century ideas to take another step.

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

And it seemed only natural to label what could now be done as “ complex systems theory ”: a theory of systems that show complexity, even from simple rules. And while they used computers as practical tools, they never made the jump to seeing computation as a core paradigm for thinking about science. It’s been 36 years now.