Announcements

On Tuesday, May 14, Stephen Wolfram's book A New Kind of Science is published and should start being available at all major bookstores. Representing the culmination of nearly 20 years of work by scientist, Mathematica creator, and Wolfram Research CEO Stephen Wolfram, the book is being heralded as a major scientific achievement, as well as being highly readable. Wolfram credits Mathematica as the tool that made his science possible. The notes at the back of the book contain nearly eight hundred Mathematica programs that illustrate the power of Mathematica programming and can be downloaded on the website...
http://www.wolframscience.com

Continuing its central role in the definition and development of MathML, Wolfram Research will host the MathML International Conference again this year. Like the highly successful first conference in 2000, the second conference--to be held June 28-30, 2002, in the Chicago area--will feature tutorials, presentations, posters, and software demonstrations, as well as three special invited talks. The early registration deadline is May 17; tutorial space is limited...
http://www.mathmlconference.org/2002

Wolfram Research would like to know how you are using your Mathematica or webMathematica license. If you have nonproprietary journal or conference articles, papers, web links, or other success stories that you would like to share with the Mathematica community, please send them to us at experience@wolfram.com. If we feature your work on our website, we will send you a free Mathematica T-shirt. A sampling of Mathematica-related articles and stories is available...
http://library.wolfram.com/papers
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/experience

Wolfram Education Group offers certified Mathematica training to individuals and corporations. A current listing of course dates and locations through June 2002 has been posted. On-site group training is also now being provided. Online registration and additional information are available...
http://www.wolfram.com/services/education/courses/calendar.html

In the news...

Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science has been at #1 on the Amazon.com bestseller list. The book is being widely covered in the media (The New York Times, TIME, Wired, etc.); the book's website has links to the latest...
http://www.wolframscience.com

Major textbook publisher Addison Wesley has launched new online calculus tutorials and testing using webMathematica technology from Wolfram Research...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/mathxl.html

A new Smithsonian National Museum of American History exhibit on teaching math in America features Mathematica as a key teaching tool. Click "The Information Age" sidebar link, and proceed to page two...
http://americanhistory.si.edu/teachingmath/index.htm

Featured New Books

Discrete Dynamical Systems and Difference Equations with Mathematica by Mustafa R. S. Kulenovic and Orlando Merino...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN1584882875.str

Mathematica for Microeconomics: Learning by Example by John Robert Stinespring...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0126709610.str

Nonlinear Physics with Mathematica for Scientists and Engineers by Richard H. Enns and George C. McGuire...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0817642234.str

Statistics for Science and Engineering by John J. Kinney...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0201437201.str

Did you know...?

...webMathematica can be used to design and serve web pages that generate output to narrowband devices including cellular phones, PDAs, and pagers. See examples illustrating webMathematica applications for mobile communication...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/webmathematica/uses/wireless.html

...when saving notebooks as HTML, you can make your typeset cells use text and not GIFs by using the option ConversionOptions. To set this as the default, use the SetOptions command...
http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/interface/export/nogifs.html