Good Afternoon All!
re: Mathematica 5.1 launch
Some of you may be interested in the latest press release announcing Mathematica
5.1 at:
http://www.wolfram.com/news/mathematica51.html
Key extracts from the press release are copied in the email below.
If anyone is interested in reviewing this new release, from a UK Higher Education
maths, stats or operational research teaching and learning perspective, please
respond expressing and interest by return email to [log in to unmask] or our
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I hope some of you find the above useful and I look forward to hearing from all
interested reviewers.
Regards...........Robert S
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Newly Released Mathematica(R) 5.1 Delivers Unmatched Performance for
Handling Data
Building on Mathematica 5's dramatic speed, scope, and scalability
improvements, Version 5.1 adds a host of new capabilities, especially
for working with large-scale, diverse types of data.
There are more than 50 new functions, toolkits, and performance
improvements in Mathematica 5.1. In detail, highlights include:
- Industrial-strength string manipulation
- Built-in universal database connectivity
- Highly optimised binary data I/O
- Additional import-export formats, including XLS and AVI
- Integrated web services support
- 2D and 3D automated network visualisation
- High-performance array visualisation
- Numerical linear algebra performance enhancements
- Fully integrated piecewise functions
- Integration over implicitly defined regions
- Event handling in numerical differential equations
- New algorithms for symbolic differential equations
- Cluster analysis capabilities added
- Interactive exploration tool for differential equations
- MathematicaMark(tm) benchmarking tool
- GUIKit interface and application builder now built in
- and many more innovations
Mathematica 5.1 is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
x86/x86-64bit/Itanium, Solaris, HP Tru64 Unix, HP-UX, IBM AIX, IRIX,
and compatible systems. The suggested retail price is GBP 1,625 (EUR
2,660) and includes one year of Premier Service and its many benefits,
as well as The Mathematica Book, Fifth Edition, by Stephen Wolfram.
Mathematica and other Wolfram Research products may be purchased
online at the Wolfram Research website or from authorised Mathematica
resellers. Upgrade, academic, network, and site licence discounts are
available. More product details can be found at
www.wolfram.com/mathematica.
------- End of forwarded message -------Robert Surowiec
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