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British
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Businessman
Born:
June 10
, 1970
Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.
Conrad Wolfram
People
World
Computers
Transform
I couldn't tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it with a layer of automation.
Conrad Wolfram
You
Automation
Detail
Tell
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
Mathematics
You
Computers
More
Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.
Conrad Wolfram
More
Mechanical
Practical
Should
Any tool can be used badly.
Conrad Wolfram
Used
Any
Tool
Badly
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
You
End
Search
Trying
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
Education
You
World
Computers
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
You
World
Think
How
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
Education
People
Pretty
One Thing
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