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Ask HN: Anybody used Mathematica, for any reason?
I was just digging around on WolframAlpha.com and there seem to be many different ways to use Mathematica:
http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/SoftwareEngineering/
http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/MedicalImaging/
http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/Chemistry/
http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/ElectricalEngineering/
I was just curious if anybody here has ever used Mathematica, and what your experience has been. I'm asking mostly because I like using Wolfram's search engine, so I am curious if other products by the company are worth looking into.
- jmakov 16y agoI worked in Mathematica quite a bit, still use it for some quick visualization hacks. But after some time, I wanted to do stuff that wasn`t available in Mathematica and the only choice would be to implement the algorithms by myself. At that point I realized that I`m locked to Wolfram and started to look for alternatives. I found http://www.sagemath.org/ http://www.sagemath.org/ - a python based framework. Now if I want to use something like evolutionary algorithms and some higher math, I can simply connect sagemath with e.g. pyevolve. And I heard they have an interface for R...
- bbgm 16y agoYep, I used it all through grad school, mostly around framing electronic structure problems and doing spectral deconvolution. For a certain set of problems it's really good especially for prototyping.