Hypergeometric series appeared in the mid-seventeenth century; since then, they have played an important role in the development of mathematical and physical theories. Most of the elementary and ...
https://blog.wolfram.com/2024/01/25/hypergeometric-functions-from-euler-to-appell-and-beyond/
“There is every reason to expect that the various social sciences will serve as incentives for the development of great new branches of mathematics and that some day the theoretical social scie...
“The spread of computers and the internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.” — Marc Andreessen, invento...
Multivariable calculus extends calculus concepts to functions of several variables and is an essential tool for modeling and regression analysis in economics, engineering, data science and other ...
Statistics is the mathematical discipline dealing with all stages of data analysis, from question design and data collection to analyzing and presenting results. It is an important field for anal...
https://blog.wolfram.com/2023/06/06/expand-your-understanding-of-statistics-with-wolfram-language/
“I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.” —Christiaan Huygens Have you ever wondered how health insurance premiums are calculated or why healthcare is s...
As you may know from your own experience (or perhaps from the literature on education), passively receiving information does not lead to new knowledge in the same way that active participation in...
https://blog.wolfram.com/2023/01/20/active-learning-with-wolframalpha-notebook-edition/
In grade school, long arithmetic is considered a foundational math skill. In the past several decades in the United States, long arithmetic has traditionally been introduced between first and fif...
https://blog.wolfram.com/2022/08/26/step-by-step-arithmetic-methods-with-wolframalpha-pro/
What is the half-derivative of x? Fractional calculus studies the extension of derivatives and integrals to such fractional orders, along with methods of solving differential equations involving ...
https://blog.wolfram.com/2022/08/12/fractional-calculus-in-wolfram-language-13-1/