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Why Should You Consider STEM Programs for High School Students?

STEM Education Guide

Therefore, you’ll be taking AP Chemistry, AP Physics, and AP Calculus, in addition to coding classes (codemonkey) or robotics as extracurricular activities. Mathematics Each day, people apply the basic math principles in buying property, computing the distance between two locations, baking a cake, or balancing a budget.

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

But in a quirk of history that I now realize had tremendous significance, I had just spent a couple of years creating a big computer system that was ultimately a direct forerunner of our modern Wolfram Language. So for me it was obvious: if I couldn’t figure out things myself with math, I should use a computer. Computation theory.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

And there was one way in which Ed and I were very much aligned: both of our lives were deeply influenced by computers and computing. Ed had started with computers in 1956—as part of one of the very first cohorts of programmers. Finally I felt as if there might be a plausible computational foundation for fundamental physics.