Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Conrad Wolfram

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British businessman Conrad Wolfram.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Conrad Wolfram

Conrad Wolfram is a British technologist and businessman known for his work in information technology and mathematics education reform. In June 2020, Wolfram released his first book, The Math(s) Fix: An Education Blueprint for the AI Age.

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.
Any tool can be used badly.
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.
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
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.
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.
Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.
Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.
I couldn't tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it with a layer of automation.
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.
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