danieller

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   by danieller 10y ago

   Not sure, could have to do with early marketing in the 80s - we all know academia likes to stay on a path regardless of new developments. Could be as simple as "Mathematica" has math in its name and was developed by a physicist..
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   by danieller 10y ago

   :/ yeah, so does youtube and pandora now - 'tis the way of the (commercial) world.
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   by danieller 10y ago

   Matlab might be more popular in engineering, but Mathematica is pretty pervasive world wide in math and physics especially
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   by danieller 10y ago

   have you tried the free version on the cloud? www.wolfram.com/development-platform/ definitely recommend playing around.
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   by danieller 10y ago

   check out demonstrations.wolfram.com too - it's a place you can put manipulations if you want to use them in a class, etc