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Wolfram Research Releases Mathmatica 7

Mathmetica 7 was released today Wolfram Research.

If you plan to do any computation, Mathematica is invaluable. It lets you focus on the concepts and takes care of all the nitty -gritty.

New features range from things as simple as cut-and-paste integration with Microsoft Word’s Equation Editor to instant 3D models of mathematical objects. Full suites of genome, chemical, weather, astronomical, financial, and geodesic data is designed to make Mathematica as invaluable for scientific research as it is for mathematics.”

There are several other software packages, MatLab, SciLab, Maxim but this is by far the most feature rich.

I have used it in a non-physics context to visualize data and it works very well. As they say, never underestimate the power of a pretty picture! And it is even more convincing if it is a pretty graph!

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar…

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The bartender says “You’re all idiots”, and pours two beers.

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Funny addition by CadMonkey at StumbleUpon

…then they asked for separate tabs…”An infinite number of mathematicians get thrown out of a bar”