MATHwire
News for the Mathematica Community
August 2003
Announcements
Mathematica 5 is now shipping for all systems. Dubbed the
"Advanced Algorithms Release," Mathematica 5 introduces a whole
new generation of advanced algorithms that bring a new level of
speed and scope...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica
Two Mathematica application packages have new versions available:
Experimental Data Analyst 1.1...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/eda
Fuzzy Logic 2...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/fuzzylogic2.html
Mathematica is taking web services technology to a new level. Get
a preview by trying the Mathematica Web Services Package 1.0
beta...
http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/mathlink/webservices
Learn about the latest Mathematica technology and applications
from the 2003 Mathematica Developer Conference notebook
proceedings that are now online...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/events/devconf2003/notebooks.html
Wolfram Education Group announces two new training courses:
M310: Digital Image Processing and M330: Neural Networks...
http://www.wolfram.com/weg/calendar.cgi
New in Print
The Mathematica Book, Fifth Edition, by Stephen Wolfram...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN1579550223.str
Challenging the Boundaries of Symbolic Computation: Proceedings
of the 5th International Mathematica Symposium edited by Peter
Mitic, Philip Ramsden, and Janet Carne...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN1860943632.str
Introduction to Chemical Engineering Analysis Using Mathematica
by Henry C. Foley...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0122619129.str
CalcLabs with Mathematica for Stewart's Single Variable
Calculus by Selwyn Hollis...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0534393713.str
Mathematical Methods in Physics and Engineering with
Mathematica by Ferdinand F. Cap...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN1584884029.str
Partial Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems with
Mathematica, Second Edition, by Prem K. Kythe, Pratap Puri, and
Michael R. Schäferkotter...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN1584883146.str
Did you know...?
...Mathematica 5 can solve systems of one million linear
equations in one million variables. A unique implementation of
high-speed sparse linear algebra in Version 5 is efficient for
operations on arrays of any dimension or rank...
http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/newin5/performance/sparselinear.html
...you can now solve Diophantine equations in Mathematica 5. The
function Reduce lets you solve equations using different domain
specifications, enabling it to handle equations over integers as
well as over real and complex variables...
http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/newin5/symbolic/reduce.html
...with the addition of new graphic, web, and matrix file formats
in Version 5, including SVG, PNG, sparse matrix, and the medical
DICOM standard, Mathematica now supports over 40 import/export
options...
http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/newin5/importexport/importexport.html
In the news...
Wolfram Research celebrated 15 years of Mathematica on June 23,
2003...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/15anniversary.html
eWEEK says Mathematica 5 "addresses essentially every issue that
previously kept [experienced users] from living in Mathematica as
their full-time technical computing environment"...
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1191957,00.asp
Theodore Gray, cofounder of Wolfram Research, previewed a
G5-optimized version of Mathematica 5 during Steve Jobs's keynote
address at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference 2003...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/g5development.html
Developer Dusan Sakulski of the South African National Disaster
Management Centre (NDMC) has used webMathematica to create a
National Disaster Hazard and Vulnerability Atlas that has caught
the attention of both the UN and NASA...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/disasteratlas.html
The 16th annual Top 100 Products for K-12 education in the June
issue of District Administration includes Mathematica Teacher's
Edition in software...
http://www.districtadministration.com/page.cfm?id=413
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