Mathematica User Experiences Archive

You never can tell just where you might find the influences of Mathematica at work--high in the sky, deep down on the ocean floor, in your favorite shampoo, or even at the local playground. Here is a user story archive of the many creative ways that users have put Mathematica to work.

Major manufacturers rely on machine learning framework for Mathematica to optimize automated assembly-line processes » Researchers have developed a complete workflow in Mathematica to build customized endplates for spinal disc prostheses » Mathematica is being used to model restructured electric power markets » The world's largest 3D display screen was created with Mathematica » Wiki-webMathematica builds a Mathematica web community » gridMathematica adopted to explore large-scale questions in human immunity » webMathematica website wins international mathematics award » Researchers at Skidmore College have devised an innovative way to make the most of their gridMathematica installation » Computer science professor sculpts award-winning art with Mathematica » Mathematica Helps 17-Year-Old in "Junior Nobel Prize" Contest » Mathematica simulates the sound of the Big Bang » Blind optical physicist pursues technical career with the aid of Mathematica » South Africa's National Disaster Atlas uses webMathematica technology to fight catastrophic events » Veteran Mathematica user Steven Skiena is showing the fun of discrete mathematics with Combinatorica » Math professor uses Mathematica to create educational animations » Three-dimensional plotting helps biologists characterize a compound organism » Top German research institutes, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, make Mathematica their preferred technical computing software » The Harker School is teaching its students to think more Mathematica-lly » Art inspires a lesson in calculus » Renowned computational scientist and author Richard Crandall is at his "primes" » Mathematica enters the ring in this new fighting-robot craze » A California math teacher and her high school students are pushing the limits of traditional learning with Mathematica » Denmark is among the first to use webMathematica technology for education » Researchers at Stanford University develop a prototype of a liveboard interface to Mathematica » Japanese fashion designer Eri Matsui puts Mathematica on the Tokyo catwalks » The new generation of finance professionals is learning its skills in a new way using Mathematica » "6 Integers" is a Mathematica-generated musical composition » Mathematica helps cryptographer Sarah Flannery become Irish Young Scientist of the Year » Scientists at CERN create a new state of matter called "quark-gluon plasma" » Mathematica serves many functions for the faculty, staff, and students of the MACHBA universities in Israel » Astronaut Michael Foale places a customer service call to Wolfram Research from the space station Mir » Mathematica helps discover the largest known prime number »

A Mathematica animation in physical 3D was one of the works on display in the Art Gallery at SIGGRAPH 2000 » Cryptonomicon author Neal Stephenson uses Mathematica to illustrate his best-selling novel » A Mitsubishi researcher finds Mathematica to be the perfect interdepartmental communication tool » Finance professionals are finding that the standard textbook models for derivatives trading are flawed and are correcting them with Mathematica » Insolvable until recently, the Robbins conjecture was visualized with help from Mathematica (downloadable Mathematica notebook) » Mathematica is used for medical studies, including AIDS research » Mathematica assessed risk in the Cassini space launch to Saturn » Boeing engineers use Mathematica to create a new precision surface-coating technology » Mathematica offers a new twist on skateboard turning » Möbius Climber lands at Sugar Sand Science Playground » Heart damage assessment goes off line » Mathematica makes possible a vanishing velodrome at the 1996 Olympics » Mathematica probes decline in sea lion population » Target location system gets a closer look » Mathematica gets slick with rebuild of paper machine » Textile design comes under the influence of Mathematica » What's your preference--corn flakes or granola, "NYPD Blue" or "The Simpsons"? » Mathematica designs betting games » It's a bird! It's a plane! It's origami! » Mathematica is used to position the California Port Patrol » Mathematica deciphers satellite images » Mathematica aids in tsunami tracking » Mathematica predicts the behavior of shampoo » Chemical kinetic modeling with Mathematica helps ensure air quality » Mathematica helps create freeway soundwalls » Mathematica turns mathematics into graphics for TV » Mathematica helps prepare the Bay Bridge for Earth's next tremble » Mathematica is used to apply civil engineering techniques to plastic surgery » Mathematica analyzes the motion of running » Exploratorium educates with Mathematica » Mathematica searches for gene sequences » Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses Mathematica in AIDS research » Protein structures are studied with the aid of Mathematica » Mathematica models landslides » Mathematica is used as an architect and architectural historian » Mathematica is used to keep genetic analysis equipment on the cutting edge » Mathematica helps researchers analyze bee behavior » Mathematica puts cotton to the test » Mmm...Mathematica makes things taste good » Threatened species are studied with Mathematica »