![]() With Mathematica the only reason for getting it wrong is that you don't understand the concepts enough to know what to do. This makes it a great educational tool and does away with the old excuse of "I'm no good at math because I can't do algebra well enough to get it right". The point is that Mathematica does algebra and calculus as easily, well almost as easily, as a pocket calculator does arithmetic. You can have two reactions to this announcement.Įither you can shrug your shoulders and say "who needs Mathematica" or you can get excited by the idea that everyone can have a symbolic math system on cheap hardware. ![]() Simply make sure that you have 600MB free on the Pi's SD card and install Mathematica using Given that a Raspberry Pi costs only $25 to $30 this is a very low entry barrier and effectively makes Mathematica free if you are prepared to go this route. ![]() In perhaps a first step to do this without damaging the company's revenue too much, Stephen Wolfram just announced that a deal with the Raspberry Pi Foundation means that the Raspberry Pi's "standard" OS will come bundled with a cutdown version of Mathematica and Wolfram language. The big problem is that for the language to seem to have a life of its own it has to be freed from the huge cost of having to buy a copy of Mathematica - which can be thousands of dollars depending on the licence. However, this is something of an illusion in that the language relies on the symbolic engine for so much of its behavior that the two - engine and language - are fairly inseparable. ![]() Why is this such a big and important move?īecause a language can crop up anywhere and not just within the Mathematica box. The first move was to formulate the idea that Mathematica was not just a symbolic engine but a computer language - Wolfram Language. Yes, there have been better versions of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha is the technology behind Siri and other "intelligent" agents, but when you think how much they could have been doing with what they had you have to wonder why it has taken so long to make a move. Wolfram, both the company and its founder Stephen Wolfram, seem to have suddenly woken up from a bit of a sleep. Buy A Pi For $25 And Get Mathematica Freeįollowing on from Wolfram's announcement of a new language that would change the way that we program, the news that Mathematica and Wolfram Language will be bundled with Raspberry Pi is, on the surface at least, electrifying.
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