We will take applications such as climate change and show how you can participate in the big open source community looking to find solutions to challenging problems with exposure to github and parallel computing. |
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You will learn mathematical ideas by immersion into the mathematical process, performing experiments, seeing the connections, and seeing just how much fun math can be. |
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Our course material is built using real code, and instead of a book, we have a series of interactive notebooks. On our website, you can play with sliders, buttons and images to interact with our simulations. You can even go further, and modify and run any code on our website! |
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| In literature it’s not enough to just know the technicalities of grammar. In music it’s not enough to learn the scales. The goal is to communicate experiences and emotions. For a computer scientist, it’s not enough to write a working program, the program should be written with beautiful high level abstractions that speak to your audience. This class will show you how. |
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Check out our interactive lecture material on computationalthinking.mit.edu!
Fall 2026 course page, under construction.
- Instructor: Alan Edelman
- Cross-listed as: 1.C25/6.C25/12.C25/16.C25/18.C25/22.C25
- Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
- Room: 45-102
- MIT listing: Department of Mathematics course list
This year's experiment is that LLMs may let us learn ideas that once felt out of reach, even when our background is uneven or incomplete. Each project will start with one such idea, build a computational way into it, and teach it to the class in the spirit of a seminar.
Dates follow the MIT Registrar calendar.
| # | Day | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W | Sep 9 | |
| 2 | M | Sep 14 | |
| 3 | W | Sep 16 | |
| 4 | M | Sep 21 | |
| 5 | W | Sep 23 | |
| 6 | M | Sep 28 | |
| 7 | W | Sep 30 | |
| 8 | M | Oct 5 | |
| 9 | W | Oct 7 | |
| M | Oct 12 | Indigenous Peoples Day - holiday | |
| 10 | T | Oct 13 | Monday schedule of classes |
| 11 | W | Oct 14 | |
| 12 | M | Oct 19 | |
| 13 | W | Oct 21 | |
| 14 | M | Oct 26 | |
| 15 | W | Oct 28 | |
| 16 | M | Nov 2 | |
| 17 | W | Nov 4 | |
| 18 | M | Nov 9 | |
| W | Nov 11 | Veterans Day - holiday | |
| 19 | M | Nov 16 | |
| 20 | W | Nov 18 | |
| 21 | M | Nov 23 | |
| W | Nov 25 | Class canceled for Thanksgiving | |
| 22 | M | Nov 30 | |
| 23 | W | Dec 2 | |
| 24 | M | Dec 7 | |
| 25 | W | Dec 9 | Class party |