Almost any workflow involves computing results, and that's what Mathematica does—from building a hedge fund trading website or publishing interactive engineering textbooks to developing embedded image recognition algorithms or teaching calculus.
Mathematica is renowned as the world's ultimate application for computations. But it's much more—it's the only development platform fully integrating computation into complete workflows, moving you seamlessly from initial ideas all the way to deployed individual or enterprise solutions.
What's New in Mathematica 8
Mathematica 8 introduces free-form linguistic input—a whole new way to compute. Enter plain English; get immediate results—no syntax required. It's a new entry point into the complete Mathematica workflow, now upgraded with 500 additional functions and 7 application areas—including the world's most advanced statistics capability and state-of-the-art image processing.
New workflow end points include deployment of standalone applications or interactive documents.
Top 8 Reasons to Upgrade to Mathematica 8
Enter your queries in plain English using new free-form linguistic input
Access more than 10 trillion sets of curated, up-to-date, and ready-to-use data
Import all your data using a wider array of import/export formats
Use the broadest statistics and data visualization capabilities on the market
Choose from a full suite of engineering tools, such as wavelets and control systems
Use more powerful image processing and analysis capabilities
Create interactive tools for rapid exploration of your ideas
Develop faster and more powerful applications
Features:
Compute
Numerics of any precision, symbolics, or visualization—Mathematica is the ultimate computational tool, with systemwide technology to ensure reliability, ease of use, and performance. Use Mathematica computation directly, as the engine in an infrastructure, or integrated into a standalone application.
Develop
Develop tools, applications, documents, or infrastructure components using Mathematica's seamless workflow, unique symbolic language, and advanced code editing environment, achieving fast turnaround on small projects and record times on large systems.
Deploy
Whether your deliverables are interactive documents, presentations, applications, or enterprise systems, Mathematica can deploy your results in a wide range of formats locally or across a network. With many ways to connect to and work with external systems, Mathematica is designed to maximize your productivity.
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