Strategic Director and European Co-Founder/CEO of the Wolfram Research, Conrad Wolfram joins us once again to discuss how today’s maths may need to experience a fundamental redesign., through the lens of his newly published book ‘The Math(s) Fix’.

 

A key part of Conrad’s work has been understanding the underlying scope of our technology and communicating what we have. He is interested in how technology and computation can move our lives and economies forward and in turn how this affects education.

 

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Buy Conrad’s book: themathsfix.org

Conrad’s other episode: bit.ly/2DaOvmQ

Conrad’s website: www.conradwolfram.com

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