ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The solution?

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Math Calculus Algebra Mathematics 363

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

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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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Maydm

JUNE 11, 2021

As a high school student, Winnie had a passion for both math and the social sciences. Her teachers pushed her into the “easier” path of social sciences rather than encourage her interest in STEM subjects. And throughout my sort of high school experience, I’d been, you know, passionate about social sciences.

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STEM Economics Social Sciences Innovation 52

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

For three centuries theoretical models had been based on the fairly narrow set of constructs provided by mathematical equations, and particularly calculus. And it’s one that can “mine” the specific modeling achievements of work on complexity and bring them to a broader and more foundational level.

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Computer Mathematics Science Sciences 55

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). But I think at least in the later part of his life, Ed felt his greatest achievements related to cellular automata and in particular his idea that the universe is a giant cellular automaton.

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Computer Physics Science Sciences 67

Computing Education Research Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

He argued that you can’t think about integral calculus the same after you learn about computational iteration. He was foreshadowing modern computational science, and in particular, computational social science. He described efforts at Carnegie Tech to build economics models and learn through simulating them.

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Computer Science Computer Science Sciences 140