Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 28, 2023

Line, Surface and Contour Integration “Find the integral of the function ” is a typical core thing one wants to do in calculus. But particularly in applications of calculus, it’s common to want to ask slightly more elaborate questions, like “What’s the integral of over the region ?”, or “What’s the integral of along the line ?”

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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. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

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Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And—it should be said at the outset—we’re still only at the very beginning of nailing down those technical details and setting up the difficult mathematics and formalism they involve.) For integers, the obvious notion of equivalence is numerical equality. For hypergraphs, it’s isomorphism. Experiencing the Ruliad.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

How does one tie all this down with rigorous, mathematical-style proofs? Once one has the idea of “equilibrium”, one can then start to think of its properties as purely being functions of certain parameters—and this opens up all sorts of calculus-based mathematical opportunities. Well, it’s difficult.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 8, 2022

Imagine that rather than playing a specific game, we instead at each step just make every possible move with equal probability. The setup for tic-tac-toe is symmetrical enough that for most of the game the probability of every possible configuration at a given step is equal. The Icosian Game & Some Relatives. &#10005.

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Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 13, 2021

the same integral could still be done, but only in terms of elliptic integrals : Mathematical Functions: A Milestone Is Reached. Special functions are in a sense a way of packaging mathematical knowledge : once you know that the solution to your equation is a Lamé function , that immediately tells you lots of mathematical things about it.

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