Special Events and Announcements

Mathematica Videos Now Available
Over 70 videos of training sessions and seminars given by Mathematica experts have just been released. Introductory videos on topics such as numerics, the Mathematica front end, programming, and graphics are available. Other videos cover specific application areas including derivatives modeling, courseware creation, publishing, medical research, engineering, and more. Visit the web for a complete list.

Premier Service Includes New Benefits
Subscribing to Premier Service now includes special discounts on selected packages in the Mathematica Applications Library. Subscribe to Premier Service and receive:

• free use of Mathematica on your home computer
• 15% off a selection of packages from the Mathematica Applications Library
• the most current version of Mathematica throughout your subscription period
• top-priority access to our technical support team
• complimentary system transfers
• special invitations and discounts to Mathematica conferences, presentations, and seminars

Calculus WIZ Solves Tough Calculus Problems
If you have a student entering college or if you want to brush up on your own calculus skills, you need Calculus WIZ, a new, fully interactive calculus problem solver. Written by an award-winning mathematics and calculus author and educator, Calculus WIZ brings first-year calculus topics to life in an innovative and fun format.

1999 Mathematica Developer Conference Date Set
Mark your calendars! The 1999 Mathematica Developer Conference is scheduled to take place October 21-23 at Wolfram Research headquarters in Champaign, Illinois. As a past conference attendee said, "There's no better way to get the inside scoop on all the things you can do with Mathematica."

Mathematica-Related Products

Dynamic Visualizer
Visualize data with real-time, three-dimensional graphics with Dynamic Visualizer. Controlled interactively or with standard Mathematica commands, Dynamic Visualizer uses revolutionary new algorithms in software rendering to scale, rotate, and texturize graphics. Render wire frames and flat and smooth Gouraud-shaded polygons, and adjust ambient lighting, reflectivity, and transparency of an object in real time.

Derivatives Expert
Designed for financial engineers, Derivatives Expert implements state-of-the-art models for exchange and over-the-counter traded securities and derivatives. With extensive online documentation, Derivatives Expert includes over 360 functions and options for financial analysis as well as detailed programming examples to get users up and running quickly.

MathCode C++
Generate optimized C++ code directly from Mathematica programs. MathCode C++ generates high-performance numeric C++ code, then allows you to link functions seamlessly into Mathematica or create stand-alone executables suitable for embedded and other applications.

Recently Published Books

• The Mathematica Book, Third Edition, Japanese Translation
• CalcLabs with Mathematica for Stewart's Multivariable Calculus Concepts and Contexts
• Getting Started with Mathematica
• Simulating Society: A Mathematica Toolkit for Modeling Socioeconomic Behavior
• The Mathematica Primer
• Differential Equations with Mathematica, Second Edition
• Multivariable Calculus and Mathematica: With Applications to Geometry and Physics

These books and hundreds of others are available in the Mathematica Bookstore.

R&D News

Wolfram Research Announces Parallel Computing Support
Now undergoing beta testing, the Parallel Computing Toolkit will bring parallel computing support to Mathematica. Running on any computer network, the toolkit makes it easy for anyone to make use of the latest ideas in parallel programming, applying them to graphics, simulation, searching, optimization, and more.

Mathematica Tips

Standard Add-on Packages
Go to the Add-ons | Standard Packages section in the Mathematica Help Browser to find out about one thousand additional functions supplied with every full copy of Mathematica. Topics include graphics, numerics, discrete math, data tables, and much more.

Try the Table Function
Table[x!, {x, 10}]
Table[x!, {x, 1, 20, 2}]
Table[1/(x+y), {x, 4}, {y, 4}]
Table[1/(x+y), {x, 4}, {y, 4}] // TableForm
Table[1/(x+y), {x, 6}, {y, x}] // TableForm

Make Indices for Notebooks
Under the Find menu, use Make Index... to create indices of your notebooks for online or printed use. You can index by page or section and set up hyperlinks for online use.

Mathematica Miscellanea

Thousands of people have visited the Publicon web site to request the beta version of Wolfram Research's upcoming revolutionary publishing system.

A collection of Mathematica-generated images is being assembled into a book series called Graphica. Check out November's issue of WIRED magazine to see a sample, and visit the Graphica web site.

The Mathematica Book is now available on the web. Access its thousands of "pages" of information in the Mathematica Documentation Center.