Anyone played with Mathematica [modified]
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The whole Wolfram Alpha thing (or as Chris Duncan will state it - "the result of some excellent marketing"). has got me interested in the Wolfram flagship product "Mathematica[^]". Even though I heard about it long time back, I dismissed it as a tool for Math junkies. But the more I read about it, the more interesting it looks. It seems to have lot of features including building UI, graphics, charts, databases, web service etc. Moreover, a home edition is now available which I can afford. So how many of you have actually played with it and what are your impressions? My current impression is that it might one of the coolest software ever developed.
modified on Friday, May 22, 2009 9:23 AM
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The whole Wolfram Alpha thing (or as Chris Duncan will state it - "the result of some excellent marketing"). has got me interested in the Wolfram flagship product "Mathematica[^]". Even though I heard about it long time back, I dismissed it as a tool for Math junkies. But the more I read about it, the more interesting it looks. It seems to have lot of features including building UI, graphics, charts, databases, web service etc. Moreover, a home edition is now available which I can afford. So how many of you have actually played with it and what are your impressions? My current impression is that it might one of the coolest software ever developed.
modified on Friday, May 22, 2009 9:23 AM
Back in the university days I used a product called Mathematica 386 to do some assignments. Not sure if it is the same thing.
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The whole Wolfram Alpha thing (or as Chris Duncan will state it - "the result of some excellent marketing"). has got me interested in the Wolfram flagship product "Mathematica[^]". Even though I heard about it long time back, I dismissed it as a tool for Math junkies. But the more I read about it, the more interesting it looks. It seems to have lot of features including building UI, graphics, charts, databases, web service etc. Moreover, a home edition is now available which I can afford. So how many of you have actually played with it and what are your impressions? My current impression is that it might one of the coolest software ever developed.
modified on Friday, May 22, 2009 9:23 AM
I did in 99/2000 for calculus at college. At the time it had the charming feature of dumping its source code at the user in response to syntax errors. IIRC the class record was >20 screens. Out side of the math dept, I don't know anyone who didn't prefer matlab.
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I did in 99/2000 for calculus at college. At the time it had the charming feature of dumping its source code at the user in response to syntax errors. IIRC the class record was >20 screens. Out side of the math dept, I don't know anyone who didn't prefer matlab.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. -- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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The whole Wolfram Alpha thing (or as Chris Duncan will state it - "the result of some excellent marketing"). has got me interested in the Wolfram flagship product "Mathematica[^]". Even though I heard about it long time back, I dismissed it as a tool for Math junkies. But the more I read about it, the more interesting it looks. It seems to have lot of features including building UI, graphics, charts, databases, web service etc. Moreover, a home edition is now available which I can afford. So how many of you have actually played with it and what are your impressions? My current impression is that it might one of the coolest software ever developed.
modified on Friday, May 22, 2009 9:23 AM
I played with its main competitor Maple back in 1995. I also used Mathcad which at that time was light-years ahead of both Maple and Mathematica in terms of usability. But the former were much more powerful.
Kevin
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The whole Wolfram Alpha thing (or as Chris Duncan will state it - "the result of some excellent marketing"). has got me interested in the Wolfram flagship product "Mathematica[^]". Even though I heard about it long time back, I dismissed it as a tool for Math junkies. But the more I read about it, the more interesting it looks. It seems to have lot of features including building UI, graphics, charts, databases, web service etc. Moreover, a home edition is now available which I can afford. So how many of you have actually played with it and what are your impressions? My current impression is that it might one of the coolest software ever developed.
modified on Friday, May 22, 2009 9:23 AM
Fifteen years ago, in college, I took a 3-week course on it. I took the class because at that point, the graphics it could create were amazing, and that was back in the day when you had to all of your graphics coding by hand so it seemed useful. You're right, though - the only ones that really "got it" were the math junkies. You had to create some pretty complex equations to get much out of it. Even though I'm decidedly not into high-level math, it was fun to play with for a while. :) Ed
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The whole Wolfram Alpha thing (or as Chris Duncan will state it - "the result of some excellent marketing"). has got me interested in the Wolfram flagship product "Mathematica[^]". Even though I heard about it long time back, I dismissed it as a tool for Math junkies. But the more I read about it, the more interesting it looks. It seems to have lot of features including building UI, graphics, charts, databases, web service etc. Moreover, a home edition is now available which I can afford. So how many of you have actually played with it and what are your impressions? My current impression is that it might one of the coolest software ever developed.
modified on Friday, May 22, 2009 9:23 AM
It saved my ass in Calculus. Showed me where my mistakes were when I couldn't get a problem figured out.
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The whole Wolfram Alpha thing (or as Chris Duncan will state it - "the result of some excellent marketing"). has got me interested in the Wolfram flagship product "Mathematica[^]". Even though I heard about it long time back, I dismissed it as a tool for Math junkies. But the more I read about it, the more interesting it looks. It seems to have lot of features including building UI, graphics, charts, databases, web service etc. Moreover, a home edition is now available which I can afford. So how many of you have actually played with it and what are your impressions? My current impression is that it might one of the coolest software ever developed.
modified on Friday, May 22, 2009 9:23 AM