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Numbers and networks: how can we use mathematics to assess the resilience of global supply chains?

Futurum

Pure mathematicians study mathematical concepts in their abstract forms, while applied mathematicians use maths to solve problems in the real world and are, therefore, an essential part of many other disciplines, such as the natural sciences, engineering and finance. WHAT DOES A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A MATHEMATICIAN LOOK LIKE?

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

Processes in nature—like, for example, the weather—can be thought of as corresponding to computations. Yes, we can do natural science to figure out some aspects of what’s going to happen. And much of the time there’ll be irreducibility in those computations. So we won’t be able to readily predict them.

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