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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

1 Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 2 The Underlying Structure of Mathematics and Physics. 3 The Metamodeling of Axiomatic Mathematics. 4 Simple Examples with Mathematical Interpretations. 15 Axiom Systems of Present-Day Mathematics. 21 What Can Human Mathematics Be Like? Graphical Key.

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Numbers and networks: how can we use mathematics to assess the resilience of global supply chains?

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Numbers and networks: how can we use mathematics to assess the resilience of global supply chains? At Brigham Young University in the US, Dr Zach Boyd is using his mathematical skills to determine how best to protect our supply chains. BUILDING MATHEMATICAL MODELS. FIELD OF RESEARCH: Mathematics. Published: July 13, 2022.

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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

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.) Mathematically this can be thought of as being like decomposing the ruliad structure in terms of fibrations and foliations.). The View from Mathematics.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And at first I did so in the main scientific paradigm I knew : models based on mathematics and mathematical equations. From mathematics. Mathematical physics. By the late 1970s, though, there were other initiatives emerging, particularly coming from mathematics and mathematical physics. Synergetics.

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

Stephen Wolfram

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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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

Then we might make a mathematical guess, like that perhaps we should use a straight line as a model: We could pick different straight lines. It’s just something that’s mathematically simple, and we’re used to the fact that lots of data we measure turns out to be well fit by mathematically simple things.

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