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Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.

~Conrad Wolfram

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Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

~Conrad Wolfram

Topics: Allow Calculating Computers People Transform World

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Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.

~Conrad Wolfram

Topics: Allow Calculating Computers Does Equal Factor Gone Intellectual Limiting Make Mathematics More Now Whole Years You

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Any tool can be used badly.

~Conrad Wolfram

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Answers are what we are trying to get at; search is a process by which you may be able to get answers, but it's not the end goal. It's a mechanism.

~Conrad Wolfram

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Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.

~Conrad Wolfram

Topics: Before Computer Computers Different Done Education Everything Fundamentally Hand Idea Insistence Maths Most Nonsense Operate Process Real Real World Than The Real World World You

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I couldn't tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it with a layer of automation.

~Conrad Wolfram

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Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.

~Conrad Wolfram

Topics: Based Calculate Curriculum Every How Idea Math Most Resistance Teaching Think Variable Very World You I Think

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One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level of math education.

~Conrad Wolfram

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Businessman

Born: Unknown

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