Wolfram Reasearch is now shipping Mathematica for OS X, offering "significant speed gains and vastly improved stability." Version 4.1, the current release, includes improved symbolic differential equation solvers and dramatic speed increases for statistical functions.
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Mathematica is a beautiful program. I wouldn't be able to do my math and physics homework without it. Of course, my homework explicitly requires it, so that doesn't mean much, but what a beautiful thing, to never have to integrate or calculate fourier transforms by hand again!
In my day we had to do Fourier transforms by hand and back again and they gave us stones for us tea. And we had to sleep under a discarded cereal box.
Does anyone know if an OS X version of Maple is going to be available soon?
I don't want to get into the Maple vs. Mathematica argument, but I have more time invested in Maple and I'd rather not change programs.
I wrote MapleSoft a little while ago and they said that they are "committed to the platform" and an OS X version will exist; they just didn't say when.
Just as an aside, since Maple was mentioned:
My Maple V 5.1 software works well under OS X 10.1,
in the Classic environment. A native OS X version
would be welcome, but I am quite happy in the meantime.
I remember when Steve Jobs cut the deal to have a full
Mathematica release included with NeXTstep --
that was very cool, as was the bundled dictionary
and thesaurus from Mirriam-Webster.
Anyway, I like this news of Mathematica availability.
I wonder if it integrates well with the presence of
PDF/Acrobat/Quartz in OS X. I'd like to see copying
and pasting of equations be very nice and intuitive.
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Great!
This is good news for the mac/unix scientific community. I'm getting one.