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Mathematica: A system for doing mathematics by computer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

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Mathematica is a computer software system for symbolic manipulation and numerical computation; it has excellent graphics, a high-level, mathematically-oriented programming language and, very importantly, it takes seriously the need for work to be interactive, properly presented and communicated. This article is in fact prepared as a Mathematica “notebook”. An extensive library of supporting software “packages” has been developed, and several books about using it are now available.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1993

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