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How Smart Are Equations and Algorithms?: An Attempt to Transfer the Notion of Intelligence to Mathematical Concepts

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This chapter is devoted to the question of whether mathematical intelligence exists and what it might be. Using simple textbook examples and applications from current research, we point out similarities and differences between mathematical intelligence and its human counterpart. We focus on so-called mechanistic mathematical modeling. Mechanistic modeling leverages mathematical and computational methods to study how complex phenomena arise from basic principles. It enables a systematic and quantitative analysis of a broad range of questions.

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  1. Institute for Computational Biomedicine – Disease Modeling, RWTH Aachen University & RWTH Aachen Medical School, Aachen, Germany

    Thomas Stiehl

  2. Institute of Applied Mathematics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

    Anna Marciniak-Czochra

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  1. University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Rainer M. Holm-Hadulla

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Joachim Funke

  3. Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Michael Wink

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Stiehl, T., Marciniak-Czochra, A. (2022). How Smart Are Equations and Algorithms?: An Attempt to Transfer the Notion of Intelligence to Mathematical Concepts. In: Holm-Hadulla, R.M., Funke, J., Wink, M. (eds) Intelligence - Theories and Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04198-3_11

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