Announcements

The 2001 Mathematica Developer Conference will be held October 11-13, 2001, at Hawthorn Suites in Champaign, Illinois. The conference will feature sessions on the design and implementation of Mathematica and provide an excellent opportunity to interact with key Mathematica developers...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/events/devconf2001

The new Wolfram Education Group offers certified Mathematica training to individuals and corporations. Classes are now open for registration in Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and New York City. Online registration and additional information about Wolfram Education Group are available...
http://www.wolfram.com/services/training/education

arXiv.org, the well-known e-print server hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory, now accepts submissions of notebook documents created with Mathematica or Publicon. Guidelines for file submission are available...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/arxiv.html

UnRisk is a new tool designed to combine speed with precision in the analysis of financial derivatives. Integrating Mathematica with optimized C++ libraries, UnRisk provides the flexibility of a high-level programming language and the speed necessary for production use...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/unrisk

New Books

Reliability Theory with Applications to Preventive Maintenance
by Ilya Gertsbakh...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN3540672753.str

Illustrating Evolutionary Computation with Mathematica
by Christian Jacob...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN1558606378.str

Physical Chemistry and Physical Chemistry Solutions Manual
by Robert J. Silbey and Robert A. Alberty...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0471383112.str

Did you know...?

...the new standard package Calculus`Integration` in Mathematica 4.1 extends Integrate and NIntegrate to handle multiple integration over regions implicitly defined by inequalities and extends Integrate to handle piecewise functions...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/newin41/integration.html

...a Mathematica notebook stores bitmap images of all graphics contained in the notebook. To remove these cached images and reduce the size of the notebook, use the RemoveImageCache function...
http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/interface/notebooks/removeimagecache.html

In the news...

Be on the lookout for CalculationCenter, a major new stand-alone product from Wolfram Research...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/calculationcenter.html

Wolfram Research is a major sponsor of the 42nd International Mathematical Olympiad to be held July 1-14, 2001, in Washington, D.C. Five hundred of the most talented high-school-age mathematicians from more than 80 countries will participate...
http://imo2001.usa.unl.edu

Wolfram Research, Inc. has teamed up with simplyengineering.com to provide Calculation City, an online resource that uses webMathematica to provide engineering professionals with real-world calculators for stress, load, friction, fluid flow, pressure loss, and many other applications...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/simplyengineering.html

The Danish Ministry of Education, one of the first organizations to use webMathematica technology for education, has established a new pilot program that may improve the way future generations of high school students are educated worldwide...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/danishcourse.html