ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Around the country, “ math wars ” are raging over attempts to increase equity by playing down calculus from the curriculum in favor of statistics or computer science, or by delaying when students take algebra. For the high school summer program at Harvard, though, only algebra II was required.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

In 2000 I was interested in what the simplest possible axiom system for logic (Boolean algebra) might be. We know the ones that correspond to “known science”. Solving Equations with AI In traditional mathematical science the typical setup is: here are some equations for a system; solve them to find out how the system behaves.

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Science Sciences Computer Mathematics 115

Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Then McCarthy started to explain ways a computer could do algebra. It was all algebra. And the only conclusion we can arrive at is that a person can’t do this much algebra with the hope of getting it right.” And Minsky mentioned work a student of his was doing on the “AI problem” of symbolic integration.

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Computer Physics Science Sciences 69