STEM Sport

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Educational Benefit: This experiment helps students understand the Earth’s rotation, the changing angle of sunlight during the day, and the basics of astronomy. The Mathematics of Leaf Drop Description: Students collect data on the rate of leaf drop from specific trees throughout the fall season.

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STEM Energy Chemistry Mathematics 98

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In the original article, I gave a list of what computing skills mathematics majors should learn and when they should learn them. If anything, over the past seven years, my feelings about the centrality of computing in the mathematics major have gotten even more entrenched. Instead, bring it in and teach students how to use it well.

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Mathematics Computer Algebra Calculus 52

Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 28, 2023

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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Computer Calculus Construction Mathematics 117

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

So did that mean we were “finished” with calculus? Somewhere along the way we built out discrete calculus , asymptotic expansions and integral transforms. And in Version 14 there are significant advances around calculus. Another advance has to do with expanding the range of “pre-packaged” calculus operations.

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Computer Calculus Construction Accessibility 103

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 29, 2022

Now “characters” could be 16-bit constructs, with nearly 65536 possible “glyphs” allocated across different languages and uses (including some mathematical symbols that we introduced). Needless to say, you can do this computationally—though the “calculus” of what’s been defined so far in Unicode is fairly bizarre: &#10005.

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Calculus Construction Computer Argumentation 114

Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 13, 2021

the same integral could still be done, but only in terms of elliptic integrals : Mathematical Functions: A Milestone Is Reached. Special functions are in a sense a way of packaging mathematical knowledge : once you know that the solution to your equation is a Lamé function , that immediately tells you lots of mathematical things about it.

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Construction Computer Physics Accessibility 66