Mathematica is an integrated environment for all types of technical computing. It is a calculator, a sophisticated equation solver, a data analyzer, a programming language, a visualization tool, and a publishing tool of electronic and print documents. Today, Mathematica is used by over a million professionals and students in areas such as finance, science, engineering, technology, research, medicine, and education.

From solving integrals and differential equations to performing linear and nonlinear regression to creating three-dimensional plots, Mathematica has thousands of functions and options. More specifically, Mathematica's capabilities include the following.

Numeric Computation

• Over one thousand mathematical functions
• Unlimited numerical precision
• Matrix and tensor operations
• Ordinary and partial differential equations
• Fourier transforms
• Data manipulation, fitting, and statistics
• Root finding
• Optimization
• Number theory

Symbolic Computation

• State-of-the-art computer algebra algorithms
• Polynomial factoring and manipulation
• Symbolic integration
• Algebraic and differential equation solving
• Symbolic matrix operations
• Simplification
• General list and string processing

Programming Language

• Award-winning, intuitive symbolic language
• Procedural, functional, list-based, rule-based, and object-oriented programming
• Uniform symbolic expression representation of all objects
• Fully scalable from small to large programs
• Linkable to C, C++, Fortran, and Visual Basic code

Graphics and Sound

• 2D, 3D, contour, and density plots
• General 3D object visualization
• Animation
• Sampled sound
• High-level symbolic graphics description language
• Resolution-independent PostScript output
• Export and import of standard graphics formats

Notebook Documents

• Interactive documents with text, graphics, sound, and math
• Publication-quality, editable typeset formulas and tables
• Full range of formatting options
• Automatic optimization for screen and print
• Export capabilities in TeX and HTML