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How far has education really come in terms of reducing inequities?

CSTEM

Elementary students rarely encounter computer science or engineering, and advanced science courses in high school favor higher-income, non-minority students. In middle schools offering algebra, white students make up 50% of the attendees, but 58% of those enrolled in algebra classes. Changing placement policies.

Algebra 52
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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

In more explicit form we could write this as Equal [f[x_, y_], f[f[y_, x_],y_]] —where Equal ( ) has the “known meaning” of representing equality. and at t steps gives a total number of rules equal to: &#10005. So how about logic, or, more specifically Boolean algebra ? &#10005. &#10005.

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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

Instead, what happens is that the universe evolves by virtue of lots of elementary updating events happening throughout the network. The same is true of axioms for areas of abstract algebra like group theory—as well as basic Euclidean geometry (at least for integers). But at the lowest level in our models, time doesn’t work that way.

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LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

As an example, here’s a small piece of code (from my An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language ), shown in the default way it’s rendered in notebooks: But in Version 13.3 But what if we ask a question where the answer is some algebraic expression? But in Version 13.3 Sometimes that’s easy to determine.

Computer 119
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Observer Theory

Stephen Wolfram

In observing the metamathematical universe the analogy is basically different possible kinds of theories or abstractions—say, algebraic vs. geometrical vs. topological vs. categorical, etc. With our concept of “elementary equivalencings” we have a way to measure both in terms of computational operations.

Physics 112
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Multicomputation with Numbers: The Case of Simple Multiway Systems

Stephen Wolfram

or ) must for example be equal to 1 mod 2, 3 and 6. This structure is very dependent on the algebraic properties of. A few additional results are (where the decimals are algebraic numbers of degree 6, and a is a real number): &#10005. How should we decompose that into “elementary events”? &#10005. &#10005.

Physics 52
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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

For integers, the obvious notion of equivalence is numerical equality. For example, we know (as I discovered in 2000) that (( b · c ) · a ) · ( b · (( b · a ) · b )) = a is the minimal axiom system for Boolean algebra , because FindEquationalProof finds a path that proves it.

Physics 116