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.

Math 360

Math Calculus Algebra Mathematics 360

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

A key idea—ultimately supported at a foundational level by our Physics Project —is that we can think of everything that happens as a computational process. The system is doing a computation to determine its behavior. In 2000 I was interested in what the simplest possible axiom system for logic (Boolean algebra) might be.

Science 122

Science Sciences Computer Mathematics 122

Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Indeed, so confident was he of his programming prowess that he became convinced that he should in effect be able to write a program for the universe—and make all of physics into a programming problem. 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).

Computer 67

Computer Physics Science Sciences 67