MATHwire
News for the Mathematica Community
October 2003
Announcements
Download Mathematica and other Wolfram Research products
immediately. The Wolfram web store newly supports worldwide
direct downloads to your computer for many products...
http://store.wolfram.com
Try Mathematica or CalculationCenter for free! Fully functional,
time-limited trial downloads are now available...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/trial.cgi
http://www.wolfram.com/products/calculationcenter/trial.cgi
gridMathematica 1.1 brings the power of Mathematica 5 to the grid
to provide the best high-performance computing environment...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/gridmathematica
With the new semester and annual editions of Mathematica for
Students, students can gain the Mathematica advantage for one
class (up to six months) or for one year. Download today for less
than the cost of most textbooks...
http://www.wolfram.com/timedstudent.html
The new Mathematica Homeschool Kit makes math and science
education in the home come alive...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/homeschoolkit
MathOptimizer Professional is a new Mathematica application
package offering advanced methods for the solution of continuous
global and convex optimization problems...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/mathoptpro
Advanced Modern Control supplements the Control System
Professional application package suite, providing methods for
modern controller design, model reduction, and system
evaluation...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/amc
Wolfram Education Group's fall course calendar includes training
courses throughout the U.S. and abroad...
http://www.wolfram.com/weg/calendar.cgi
Mark your calendars now for the Wolfram Technology Conference to
be held October 21-23, 2004! Submit suggestions and
recommendations for session topics and session leaders to:
conference-info@wolfram.com
New in Print
Computing with Mathematica by Hartmut F. and Margret H. Hoft...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0123516609.str
Mathematica Computer Guide by E. Kreyszig and E. J. Norminton...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0471386693.str
Mathematical Methods Using Mathematica: For Students of Physics
and Related Fields by Sadri Hassani...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0387955232.str
Modelling Metabolism with Mathematica by Peter J. Mulquiney and
Philip W. Kuchel...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0849314682.str
Did you know...?
...you can solve large-scale linear programming problems in
Mathematica 5 using an efficient interior-point method. Similar
functionality has until now been available only in expensive
special-purpose packages...
http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/newin5/performance/largescalelinear.html
...in Mathematica you can evaluate selected expressions in place
with Ctrl-Shift-Enter (Windows and Unix) or Command-Return
(Macintosh)...
http://documents.wolfram.com/v5/FrontEnd/MenuCommands/KernelMenu/
Evaluation/EvaluationEvaluateInPlace.html
In the news...
Mathematica 5 for Linux on Intel Itanium 2 unites high-performance
technologies to provide a native 64-bit environment
for intensive computing applications...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/itanium2.html
"[T]he numeric improvements are so spectacular that most current
Mathematica users will want to upgrade," says PC Magazine about
Mathematica 5...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1217139,00.asp
See what others are saying about Wolfram Research and Mathematica
5 on our new recent media coverage page...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/coverage.html
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