Futurum

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Scientific model — a conceptual or mathematical representation of a real-world phenomenon that allows scientists to study the phenomenon in more detail. Scientists can now turn their theories into mathematical models, which can then be expressed in software as simulations. Biology with Professor Michelle Peckham and Dr Alistair Curd.

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Research Research Biology Chemistry 81

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

And indeed it increasingly seems as if the “secret” that nature uses to make the complexity it so often shows is exactly to operate according to the rules of simple programs. And indeed over the past three centuries there’s been lots of success in doing this, mainly by using mathematical equations. It’s very much like with ChatGPT.

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Computer Biology Mathematics Economics 105

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

And at first I did so in the main scientific paradigm I knew : models based on mathematics and mathematical equations. From mathematics. Mathematical physics. Could it really be that this was the secret that nature had been using all along to make complexity? Some essential “phenomenon of complexity”? Synergetics.

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Computer Mathematics Science Sciences 55

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Then we might make a mathematical guess, like that perhaps we should use a straight line as a model: We could pick different straight lines. It’s just something that’s mathematically simple, and we’re used to the fact that lots of data we measure turns out to be well fit by mathematically simple things.

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Computer Architecture Mathematics Construction 145