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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 what makes mathematics the lingua franca of computer science?

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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

Stephen Wolfram

It’s a new paradigm—that actually seems to unlock things not only in fundamental physics, but also in the foundations of mathematics and computer science , and possibly in areas like biology and economics too. You know, I talked about building up the universe by repeatedly applying a computational rule.

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

Futurum

However, in the last decade, the capabilities of artificial intelligence have been expanding at break-neck speed. ALGORITHM – a sequence of well-defined rules that allows computers to make calculations and solve problems. ALGORITHM – a sequence of well-defined rules that allows computers to make calculations and solve problems.

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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). “Lick” Licklider —who persuaded Ed to join BBN to “teach them about computers”. Then McCarthy started to explain ways a computer could do algebra. It was all algebra.