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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.

Calculus 114
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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But he had a second hypothesis too—based, he said, on the ideas of “that most ingenious gentleman, Monsieur Descartes”: that instead air consists of “flexible particles” that are “so whirled around” that “each corpuscle endeavors to beat off all others”. Later he describes what he calls the “Principle of the Communication of Heat”.

Energy 88