AJAX Version of Mathematica Coming 75
stoolpigeon writes "The O'Reilly School of Technology is teaming up with Wolfram Research to provide on-line math courses using an AJAX version of Mathematica. O'Reilly has posted an and interview with Scott Gray, the director of OST, that has more details on the program (named Hilbert after David Hilbert) itself as well as the classes they will be offering."
Re:Is my documentation worthless? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:But what, exactly, is that saying? (Score:3, Interesting)
Mathematica really isn't set up for in the loop type operations or engineering design (for mortal engineers), but it can be done with effort. That effort is a bit more than the $6k for the equivalent matlab/toolbox licenses. OTH, trying to find the closed form solution to many problems can be done with symbolic toolbox in Matlab, but it's just so much better with Mathematica and less expensive.
The new front end with 6.0 goes a long way to eliminating many of Mathematica's shortcomings in these respects, but I think it's mostly just the framework for much better things to come...I'm hoping.
Re:Is my documentation worthless? (Score:3, Interesting)
Could you elaborate a bit more on hwo you feel Sage "fails to make the grade"? We are definitely interested in feedback to help improve things.
That being said, I think a lot of it is really dependent on the type of math you are interested in doing. For me personally, using Mathematica would be a waste of my time while I've been able to be pretty productive using Sage.
Re:Is my documentation worthless? (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Is my documentation worthless? (Score:3, Interesting)
I find it difficult to adequately express just how asinine this requirement is. And I'm a mathematician!
Sage is to Maxima is to Mathematica as Vim is to Emacs is to Word. I'm an Emacs fan myself.