STEM Education Guide

MARCH 9, 2023

Recently, five of the eight Ivy League universities have reclassified their economics degrees from social science to science, technology, math, and engineering (STEM). Economics Employs Math for Concise Communication There’s no doubt that economics is part of the social sciences, given that it studies human behavior.

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Economics STEM Finance Mathematics 98

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

Later he describes what he calls the “Principle of the Communication of Heat”. There’s lots of rhetoric: The applicability of the calculus of probabilities to a particular case can of course never be proved with precision. Nevertheless, every insurance company places its faith in the calculus of probabilities.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Maydm

JUNE 11, 2021

As a high school student, Winnie had a passion for both math and the social sciences. Her teachers pushed her into the “easier” path of social sciences rather than encourage her interest in STEM subjects. And throughout my sort of high school experience, I’d been, you know, passionate about social sciences.

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STEM Economics Social Sciences Innovation 52

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. But—in something akin to the process of metamodeling—we can ask: What is the essence of what we want to communicate in the word? But with this new power came a sobering realization.

Computer 55

Computer Mathematics Science Sciences 55

Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

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). I do value our friendship and whatever I do in this regard will be an attempt at honest and unemotional communication with the goal of some better mutual understanding.

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Computer Physics Science Sciences 67

Computing Education Research Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

He wrote, “A handful of people, having no relation to the will of society, having no communication with the rest of society, will be taking decisions in secret which are going to affect our lives in the deepest sense.” He argued that you can’t think about integral calculus the same after you learn about computational iteration.

Computer Science 140

Computer Science Computer Science Sciences 140