SALZMAN@pucc.princeton.edu (David Salzman) (01/27/89)
The John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center 665 College Road East,
Princeton Forrestal Center, Plainsboro NJ Talks are open to the public.
No reservations required. For further information, call (609)520-2000.
Stephen Wolfram
University of Illinois
Mathematica: A System for Doing Mathematics by Computer
Friday, January 27, 1989
Demonstrations at 1:00 and 3:00 PM
Lecture at 2:00 PM
Routine aspects of mathematical analysis generally interrupt the creative
process and can be error prone and tedious. Symbolic algebra programs can
help automate mathematics by manipulating formulas directly, performing
integration, differentiation, power series expansion, equation-solving,
and so forth; such programs can also use arrays and compute numerically to
arbitrary precision. Mathematica is a system which the speaker created to
do numerical computations and symbolic or algebraic calculations, as well
as 2D and 3D graphics and animation. In this seminar, Wolfram will
explain the design of Mathematica and demonstrate its operation. The
audience will be able to use Mathematica before the lecture on machines
from NeXT, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, and Apple.
Stephen Wolfram is a professor of Physics, Mathematics and Computer
Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana, where he also directs the
Center for Complex Systems Research. Before his present appointment,
Wolfram was a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study and,
before that, a Senior Research Associate at Caltech. He was born in the
United Kingdom in 1959.