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

Stephen Wolfram

1 Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 2 The Underlying Structure of Mathematics and Physics. 3 The Metamodeling of Axiomatic Mathematics. 4 Simple Examples with Mathematical Interpretations. 15 Axiom Systems of Present-Day Mathematics. 21 What Can Human Mathematics Be Like? Graphical Key.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1.

Energy 88
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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

Think of it as the entangled limit of everything that is computationally possible: the result of following all possible computational rules in all possible ways. And it’s one that I think has extremely deep implications—both in science and beyond. (And—it The full ruliad is in effect a representation of all possible computations.

Physics 122
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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. But it wasn’t long before I started hearing mentions that somewhere at the school there was a computer. I’d seen a computer in real life only once—when I was 10 years old, and from a distance. How Did We Get Here?

Physics 95