Conrad Wolfram
Conrad Wolfram
Conrad Wolframis a British technologist and businessman known for his work in information technology and its application...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionBusinessman
admitting education level people subjects technical
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.
maths
Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.
computer computers education maths operate process
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.
computers people
Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.
answers trying
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.
allow computers equal gone limiting mathematics
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.
computer detail layer
I couldn't tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it with a layer of automation.