Wolfram Updates Mathematica 6 with Nearly 200 Performance Enhancements

July 5, 2007--Wolfram Research announced today a minor update to Mathematica 6, the world's most powerful global computing environment. Mathematica 6.0.1--now available free to all registered Mathematica 6 users--introduces nearly 200 improvements for even faster and more reliable computation, visualization, and network connectivity.

In addition to the over a thousand computational functions and interface enhancements new in Mathematica 6, Mathematica 6.0.1 contains:

• Enhanced automatic and manual proxy settings for internet connectivity
• More extensive documentation on legacy Mathematica functions
• Significantly improved MathLink performance on Mac and Unix systems
• Improved performance of various Import and Export converters
• Faster ListPlot, ListPlot3D and Plot3D for large numbers of points
• Improved help system initialization
• Extensions to automatic file type recognition for Import
• Complete support for scaled FontSize values
• Enhancements to Table, CSV, TSV and MathML import
• Evaluate Notebook menu item, and Magnification submenu
• Additional Mathematica function examples and tutorials
• Updates to curated data

All Mathematica 6 users will automatically receive a free update within the next few weeks.

More product details are available on the Mathematica website.