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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

ED Surge

Around the country, “ math wars ” are raging over attempts to increase equity by playing down calculus from the curriculum in favor of statistics or computer science, or by delaying when students take algebra. Kelly has taught a similar modeling course for economics and social sciences for the last few years.)

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STEM Programs: How to Choose the Right Major

STEM Education Guide

Let’s look at the main branches: Science in STEM. It includes topics such as chemistry, biology, physics, astronomy, and geology. A student who pursues a science-related career can become a medical professional, meteorologist, agriculturist, zoologist, or biological technician. Engineering in STEM. Engineering in STEM.

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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

Futurum

Culture and biology “For thousands of years, art has been used to communicate the experiences and emotions of daily life,” says Dr Claudia Damiano, previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at GestaltReVision Lab, KU Leuven, in Belgium, and now Research Associate at Toronto’s Department of Psychology.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

Futurum

As a result, a new discipline, known as research computing, has emerged to apply computers, not just software, to research including to help scientists capture images, construct models, which are turned into simulations, and analyse results. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science.

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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

Futurum

Dr Min Xu, a statistician specialising in network analysis at Rutgers University, has developed a probabilistic model that can determine how a network has grown, which not only has applications in epidemiology, but is also useful in social science, genetics and counter-terrorism efforts. What is a network? “A

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

It wasn’t long before I realized something fundamental: that this was at its core a computational phenomenon. But it really wasn’t physics, or computer science, or math, or biology, or economics, or any known field. It’s important, by the way, to distinguish this from computer science. What is that science?

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

But what kinds of pockets of computational reducibility exist in such cases? We know the ones that correspond to “known science”. Solving Equations with AI In traditional mathematical science the typical setup is: here are some equations for a system; solve them to find out how the system behaves. So why does this work?

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