Some of the ways the new tool can afford us new perspectives. From an aficionado

The Mathematical Intelligencer - Tập 29 - Trang 51-61 - 2008
Stan Wagon1
1Department of Mathematics, Macalester College, St Paul, USA

Tóm tắt

The impact of computing on mathematics in the last 20 years has been broad and deep, on both the theoretical and applied sides. There are lots of software packages available and for just about any computational task, there is a tool that can handle it. But in terms of coverage of the diverse fields of mathematics, nothing comes close to the newest version ofMathematica. And the company’s outlook that mathematics is used throughout modern science, economics, and engineering has led to a program of unmatched breadth.

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