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OCTOBER 23, 2019

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Education Education Earth science Government 153

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This is the first of a series of pieces I’m planning in connection with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the publication of A New Kind of Science. “There’s a Whole New Field to Build…” For me the story began nearly 50 years ago —with what I saw as a great and fundamental mystery of science. How is it made?

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Computer Mathematics Science Sciences 55

Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And it’s one that I think has extremely deep implications—both in science and beyond. The ruliad is an ultimate example of multicomputation, and of what I’ve characterized as the fourth major paradigm for theoretical science. But what about other models of computation—like cellular automata or register machines or lambda calculus?

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Physics Mathematics Computer Construction 122

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But by the mid-1600s the idea was emerging that there could be more explicit and mechanical explanations for phenomena in the natural world. So, for example, in the late 1700s the French balloonist Jacques Charles (1746–1823) noted the linear increase of volume of a gas with temperature.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Or you could do what is the essence of theoretical science: make a model that gives some kind of procedure for computing the answer rather than just measuring and remembering each case. It turns out that the chain rule of calculus in effect lets us “unravel” the operations done by successive layers in the neural net.

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Computer Architecture Mathematics Construction 145

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

And if we’re going to make a “general theory of mathematics” a first step is to do something like we’d typically do in natural science, and try to “drill down” to find a uniform underlying model—or at least representation—for all of them. And in the style of A New Kind of Science we can do ruliology to explore them. &#10005.

Mathematics 120

Mathematics Physics Computer Algebra 120