SALZMAN@pucc.princeton.edu (David Salzman) (01/24/89)
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.