Futurum

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Ben and Julia used two social science research methods to gather data. Pathway from school to environmental geography • Ben recommends studying an undergraduate degree in Earth and environmental science, biology, chemistry or mathematics. I became fascinated with farming and growing food.

Geography 98

Geography Research Research Science 98

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. There was also a sense that regardless of its foundations, the Second Law was successfully used in practice. He ends his piece with: In (2) the hedging is interesting.

Energy 89

Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 89

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

But just by systematic enumeration the computer was able to find what seemed to me like a very “creative” result. of what’s now Wolfram Language —we were trying to develop algorithms to compute hundreds of mathematical special functions over very broad ranges of arguments. Back in 1987—as part of building Version 1.0

Science 124

Science Sciences Computer Mathematics 124

Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

In 2015 Ed told me a nice story about his time at Caltech: In 1952–53, I was a student in Linus Pauling’s class where he lectured Freshman Chemistry at Caltech. Richard Feynman and I would get into very fierce arguments. After class, one day, I asked Pauling “What is a superconductor at the highest known temperature?”

Computer 68

Computer Physics Science Sciences 68