Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [March 26, 2021]
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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Physicists Use Certain Methods and They Get It Right
Mathematicians are sometimes very fond of a sort of pure mathematics, which isom defined as mathematics that doesn't connect anything else. When mathematics is done with good kind of aesthetics and thinking about the essence of what we're doing, it's turned out to be applicable to things. And i na, well, there's maybe a bridge from this to that. It's not sor of buttond down precise, but it's more enterprising, in a sense, intellectually. I remember meeting a person many years go now, a person who worked on number theory,. They were very proud of the fact thate everything they did was absolutely irrelevant to the world at large. Then public cropt
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