National Science Foundation

MARCH 2, 2022

chemistry, biology, and physics or both calculus and Algebra I) or to teach and work in other roles in the school such as coach and bus driver. For example, in small rural schools, teachers are often assigned non-traditional tasks and are asked to fulfill multiple roles.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

One might have thought it was already exciting enough for our Physics Project to be showing a path to a fundamental theory of physics and a fundamental description of how our physical universe works. Despite this, however, fundamental physics always seemed to resist its advance. The Path to a New Paradigm.

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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 102

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. The theory of heat will hereafter form one of the most important branches of general physics. physics) in Glasgow—began to be curious about.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

And there was something else: the computer system I’d built was a language that I’d realized (in a nod to my experience with reductionist physical science) would be the most powerful if it could be based on principles and primitives that were as minimal as possible. Mathematical physics. It had worked out very well for the language.

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Futurum

MAY 16, 2023

During my first semester, I took a physical geology class and loved it. I followed with a class in historical geology, which taught both the physical evolution of the Earth’s continents, as well as the evolution of different organisms. I always really liked history and learning about past cultures, as well as the Indiana Jones movies!

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Second Law of thermodynamics is considered one of the great general principles of physical science. Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. But our Physics Project has changed that picture. Why does the Second Law work?

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 29, 2022

Needless to say, you can do this computationally—though the “calculus” of what’s been defined so far in Unicode is fairly bizarre: &#10005. If we define a month “physically”, it corresponds to a certain fractional number of days: &#10005. Now we can use the path function to make a “spiralling” tour video: College Calculus.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

One might have thought it was already exciting enough for our Physics Project to be showing a path to a fundamental theory of physics and a fundamental description of how our physical universe works. Despite this, however, fundamental physics always seemed to resist its advance. The Path to a New Paradigm.

Science 64

Science Sciences Physics Mathematics 64

Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Indeed, so confident was he of his programming prowess that he became convinced that he should in effect be able to write a program for the universe—and make all of physics into a programming problem. It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus).

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