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A conversation between Gregory Chaitin and Stephen Wolfram (July 5, 2021)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Did You Know Calculus Before You Knew Girdle's Throne?

A, i was learning everything on my own. It must have been in e what was called junior high school. A math teacher was surprised that i was using calculus to answer questions. I first got to actually run a computer programme in something called the columbia university science armers programme. This was a saturday programme for bright high school children which was run by a gentleman called donald barr. He later became the head of the dalton school and his son is attorney general under trump. That's a small world.

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