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?

Math 362

Math Calculus Algebra Mathematics 362

STEM Education Guide

MARCH 9, 2023

Recently, five of the eight Ivy League universities have reclassified their economics degrees from social science to science, technology, math, and engineering (STEM). It allows graduates of quantitative economics and economics to apply for more generous visas compared to those granted non-STEM majors.

Economics 98

Economics STEM Finance Mathematics 98

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). Then McCarthy started to explain ways a computer could do algebra. It was all algebra. And Minsky mentioned work a student of his was doing on the “AI problem” of symbolic integration.

Computer 68

Computer Physics Science Sciences 68