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7 unusual facts about Mathematica


Chudnovsky brothers

Today, this algorithm is used by Mathematica to calculate π, and has continued to be used by others who have achieved world records in pi calculation.

Eri Matsui

Eri Matsui's 2000 collection featured many designs created using the Mathematica software program.

FoxTrot

During the late 1990s, the character of Jason Fox was licensed to Wolfram Research as a product spokesman for its Mathematica software package.

Mathematica

The front end, designed by Theodore Gray, provides a GUI, which allows the creation and editing of Notebook documents containing program code with prettyprinting, formatted text together with results including typeset mathematics, graphics, GUI components, tables, and sounds.

Mathscape

mathscape is a software system created by Michael P. Barnett of Princeton University that enables the creation of TeX typeset documents (including graphics) and formulae from Mathematica workbooks, removing the need for manual conversion and thus creating a bridge between symbolic computation and computer composition.

Midsphere

A Mathematica implementation of an algorithm for constructing canonical polyhedra.

Tarek Shawki

His leadership is considered paramount to the Arab region in modernizing university education in basic and engineering sciences, through the promotion of the Mathematica technology.


Adomian decomposition method

By using Adomian's method and a symbolic processor (such as Mathematica or Maple) it is easy to obtain the third order approximant to the solution.

Automatic calculation of particle interaction or decay

Such codes have evolved quite a lot with applications not only optimized for high-energy physics like FORM but also more general purpose programs like Mathematica and Maple.

GridMathematica

gridMathematica is a software product sold by Wolfram Research which extends the parallel processing capabilities of its main product Mathematica.

Homotopy analysis method

The HAM is an analytic approximation method designed for the computer era with the goal of "computing with functions instead of numbers." In conjunction with a computer algebra system such as Mathematica or Maple, one can gain analytic approximations of a highly nonlinear problem to arbitrarily high order by means of the HAM in only a few seconds.

Hunveyor

Mathematica demonstrations (a computer program of the Wolfram Research) help planning and studying motions, extensions, and other operations with the new instruments.

Mathematica Policy Research

Mathematica Policy Research is a policy research organization with offices in Princeton, New Jersey; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Washington, DC; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Oakland, California.

Mathematical constants and functions

Formula: For use in programs like Mathematica or Wolfram Alpha.

Noncentral F-distribution

The noncentral F-distribution is implemented in the R language (e.g., pf function), in MATLAB (ncfcdf, ncfinv, ncfpdf, ncfrnd and ncfstat functions in the statistics toolbox) in Mathematica (NoncentralFRatioDistribution function), in NumPy (random.noncentral f), and in Boost C++ Libraries.

Vincent Wing

The Olympia Domata for 1670 was edited by his elder son, Vincent Wing; and the numbers for 1704 to 1727 by his nephew, John Wing of Pickworth, Rutland, coroner of the county, who published in 1693 Heptarchia Mathematica, and in 1699 an enlarged version of his uncle's Art of Surveying, supplemented by Scientia Stellarum, Calculation of the Planets' Places, etc.


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