Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In the original article, I gave a list of what computing skills mathematics majors should learn and when they should learn them. If anything, over the past seven years, my feelings about the centrality of computing in the mathematics major have gotten even more entrenched. Mostly this is because of two things.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

But what I want to do here is to discuss what amount to deeper questions about AI in science. Three centuries ago science was transformed by the idea of representing the world using mathematics. What if all we ever want to know about are things that align with computational reducibility?

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Ellipsis Education

APRIL 6, 2021

Because computer science is much more than learning programming languages , the good news is this… you don’t have to know them all. It is a fundamental concept in computer science and software development. Finally, parameters and arguments are values passed to the functions as data for the algorithm to digest.

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Ellipsis Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This popular and professionally applicable language will help students advance in their computer science journeys. There is no implicit conversion between types like strings and integers - a string would be an invalid argument if passed to a mathematical function that expects a number.

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Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And—it should be said at the outset—we’re still only at the very beginning of nailing down those technical details and setting up the difficult mathematics and formalism they involve.) Mathematically this can be thought of as being like decomposing the ruliad structure in terms of fibrations and foliations.). The View from Mathematics.

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Talk STEM

MAY 13, 2021

The rise of our digital landscape has not just provided convenience, it has also represented incredible international career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. There really should be no argument that there should be a more diverse makeup of STEM contributors.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Since the standard Wolfram Language evaluator evaluates arguments first (“leftmost-innermost evaluation”), it therefore won’t terminate in this case—even though there are branches in the multiway evaluation (corresponding to “outermost evaluation”) that do terminate. If you set , then you set , you should get (not ) if you asked for.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Many would say that modern exact science was launched in the 1600s with the introduction of what we can call the “ mathematical paradigm ”: the idea that things in the world can be described by mathematical equations—and that their behavior can be determined by finding solutions to these equations.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Many would say that modern exact science was launched in the 1600s with the introduction of what we can call the “ mathematical paradigm ”: the idea that things in the world can be described by mathematical equations—and that their behavior can be determined by finding solutions to these equations.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 17, 2021

In the basic definition of a standard cellular automaton, the rule “takes its arguments” in a definite order. And in 1952 John von Neumann , in his “ Probabilistic Logics and the Synthesis of Reliable Organisms from Unreliable Components ”, began to give a mathematical structure for analyzing this. There is one immediate issue here.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. How does one tie all this down with rigorous, mathematical-style proofs? But one never quite gets there ; it always seems to need something extra. But the mystery of the Second Law has never gone away.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

. “Lick” Licklider —who persuaded Ed to join BBN to “teach them about computers”. It didn’t really come to light until he was at BBN, but while at Lincoln Lab Ed had made what would eventually become his first lasting contribution to computer science. Nowadays we’d call it the trie (or prefix tree) data structure.

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Computing Education Research Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

My argument is that computer science was originally invented to be taught to everyone, but not for economic advantage. I see the LSA effort and our Teaspoon languages connected to the original goals for computer science. In 1961, the MIT Sloan School held a symposium on “Computers and the World of the Future.”

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