This site uses cookies to improve your experience. By viewing our content, you are accepting the use of cookies. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country we will assume you are from the United States. View our privacy policy and terms of use.

Remove Calculus Remove Chemistry Remove Natural Sciences Remove Social Sciences
article thumbnail

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

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

For three centuries theoretical models had been based on the fairly narrow set of constructs provided by mathematical equations, and particularly calculus. In some ways, ruliology is like natural science. It’s taking the computational universe as an abstracted analog of nature, and studying how things work in it.

Computer 55
Computer Mathematics Science Sciences 55
article thumbnail

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

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. There’s lots of rhetoric: The applicability of the calculus of probabilities to a particular case can of course never be proved with precision.

Energy 88
Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

 

Stay Connected

Join 31,000+ educators by signing up for our newsletter

About
About
Editions
Editions
Topics
Powered by Aggregage | Terms and Conditions | Your California Rights and Privacy Policy
© Aggregage 2024