ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. There are math requirements for those majors.

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Math Calculus Algebra Mathematics 363

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). It’s a curriculum that revolves around the idea of educating students in four particular disciplines; mathematics , technology, science, and engineering.

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Economics STEM Finance Mathematics 98

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

And at first I did so in the main scientific paradigm I knew : models based on mathematics and mathematical equations. I could write down equations and do math. So for me it was obvious: if I couldn’t figure out things myself with math, I should use a computer. From mathematics. Mathematical physics.

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Computer Mathematics Science Sciences 55

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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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

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). As I was writing this piece, I decided to look up more about Roland Silver—who I found out had been a college roommate of Marvin Minsky’s at Harvard, and had had a long career in math, etc.

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