Mathematica is a lot cheaper than Matlab, in the US anyways. Mathematica excels at symbolic computing, where as Matlab excels at numerical computing. Mathemat

Mathematica is a lot cheaper than Matlab, in the US anyways. Mathematica excels at symbolic computing, where as Matlab excels at numerical computing. Mathematica happens to be poor at numerical computing, and Matlab happens to be poor at symbolic computing, although Mathematica is becoming better at its current weakness at least.