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Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica ??????

Stephen Wolfram

And it became clear that—yes, arguably in a return to the Egyptian hieroglyph style of communication—there was an almost infinite number of possible pictorial emoji that could be made, each of them being encoded as their own Unicode code point. Now we can use the path function to make a “spiralling” tour video: College Calculus.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Later he describes what he calls the “Principle of the Communication of Heat”. This is therefore not a fact peculiar to astronomy; reversibility is a necessary consequence of all mechanistic hypotheses. Nevertheless, every insurance company places its faith in the calculus of probabilities.

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LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

Line, Surface and Contour Integration “Find the integral of the function ” is a typical core thing one wants to do in calculus. But particularly in applications of calculus, it’s common to want to ask slightly more elaborate questions, like “What’s the integral of over the region ?”, or “What’s the integral of along the line ?”

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