Mathematica for Mac

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• hola a todos

  celu32June 3, 2009

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  Es bueno para escribir formulas

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  Es facil de manejar

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• Gold Standard, for the Price of Gold

  EudoxusNovember 16, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This is a remarkably powerful and elegant program, with a vast number of functions, built-in and in packages. The programming capabilities, for scientific and mathematical problem solving, are astounding. Highly recommended for techies in just about any field who want to represent just about any problem imaginable. No compromise levels of precision. When Mathematica says Pi, it means Pi, not 3.14159. Unfortunately, the company has always charged top dollar, to the point that regular folks, especially non-students cannot usually afford the program and constant updates (which are very, very costly). 15 years ago I spent $1100 for version 3; subsequently I invested another $500-600 in upgrades. Having recently moved to Mac, I would need to begin the investment process all over again. How can a program so good be marketed so badly?

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• Amazing program, but give students a break

  joshlocker101November 18, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I have Mathematica for Students v5.0 and I am so glad I do as it has helped me enormously over the past year and will continue to do so for the next few years. It costs $140 for the student version, which is worth it if you really need it, like I do. However, there are features in 5.1 which I really need but I couldn't figure out how to download the update. I finally figured out that this isn't a standard free update, you actually have to purchase it. The price, which definitely surprised me, is $100, only $40 less than buying it for the first time. Maybe if this were v6 or something and there was a whole slew of new features and things were really different, but there is only a limited number of changes made. Admittedly these are some major changes that greatly improve the program, but not $100 worth. Of course then there is the Pro version; I can't imagine how much that must be to update.

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• It's good

  dchoby98April 9, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Contrary to the other review currently here, Mathematica 5.0 works very well for me, and almost 100% of my code from 4.0 - 4.2 works perfectly as well. I use some pretty obscure functions, so I would assume that most code will work just fine. Mathematica is extremely useful for mathematicians, scientists, and engineers of all sorts. It has a learning curve, for sure, but once you learn it, there is an incredibly amount of power to harness.

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