Mathematica is a general computing environment, that organizes many algorithmic, visualization, and user interface capabilities within a document-like user interface paradigm.
Wolfram was originally conceived by Stephen Wolfram, developed by a team of mathematicians and programmers he assembled and led, and is currently sold by his company Wolfram Research.
Mathematica integrates a numeric and symbolic computational engine, a graphics system, a programming language, a documentation system, and advanced connectivity to other applications.
Mathematica combines powerful computing software with a convenient user interface. This range of capabilities – many of which are world-leading in their own right – makes Mathematica uniquely suited as a ‘one-stop shop’ for you or your organization’s technical work.
The features include symbolic and high-performance numeric computation, 2D and 3D data visualization, broad programming capabilities, and one-step creation of web documents. Mathematica’s notebook format allows for the generation of cross-platform, fully customizable files that provide professional mathematical typesetting and publication-quality layouts for electronic and printed media.
Wolfram Mathematica 14 Features:
- A vast web of mathematical, visualization, graphics, and general programming functions, typically with state-of-the-art implementations
- Ability to instantly create user interfaces to arbitrary computations by just specifying parameters
- Integrated computable data sources, from chemistry and pure mathematics to city locations and country statistics
- The highly general interface allows the uniform manipulation and intermingling of graphics, programs, user interfaces
- Support for efficient data structures such as sparse arrays, piecewise functions, etc
- Support for emerging fields such as graph plotting and analysis, alternate input devices, new data formats
- Ability to create and publish programs that run on the free Mathematica Player
Wolfram Mathematica comprises two key components: the “kernel” and the “front end.” The kernel serves as the powerful computational engine that executes all calculations. The front end provides an intuitive user interface, enabling seamless creation and manipulation of programmatic structures. This interface allows for the flexible integration of graphics, mathematical expressions, code, text, and interactive elements.
Additionally, Mathematica offers robust debugging tools, a dedicated presentation environment, and interfaces for external devices such as USB gamepads. The kernel and front end communicate via the MathLink protocol. While Users can run the kernel and front end on separate machines, this is not the typical usage scenario for most users.
Key Elements:
- Notebook Document System
- Complex Analysis
- Volumes of Knowledge
- Typesetting
- Symbolic and Numeric Computations
- Graphics
- Application Development
- Programmable Palettes
- Special-Purpose Interfaces
- Programming Language
- Interactive Help Browser
Changes in Mathematica 14.2
Changes in Mathematica 13.3.0 :
- Added many new functions for calling large language model (LLM) functionality programmatically and for allowing LLMs to access Wolfram Language tools: ChatObject, ChatEvaluate, LLMFunction, LLMSynthesize, LLMTool, and more.
- Edit properties for a given kernel with KernelConfigurationEdit.
- Symbolic representation and manipulation of unit tests with TestCreate, TestObject, TestEvaluate, and TestEvaluationFunction.
- Compute vector line integrals with LineIntegrate and vector surface integrals with SurfaceInterage.
- Perform complex contour integration with ContourIntegrate.
- Support for the Appell bivariate hypergeometric special functions: AppellF2, AppellF3 and AppellF4.
- Several new functions were introduced and updated to support finite fields, finite field elements, and polynomial computations over finite fields. These include FiniteField, FiniteFieldElement, FiniteFieldEmbedding, FiniteFieldElementNorm, MinimalPolynomial, and MultiplicativeOrder.
- Multiple linear algebra functions have been updated to support structured matrices with compact representation and fast computation, controlled by the new TargetStructure option.
- Statically or dynamically highlight specific elements in visualizations with Highlighted and set global highlighting effects for visualizations with PlotHighlighting.
- Calibrate a system model’s parameters with measurement data using SystemModelCalibrate.
- Publish 3D graphics and geometries to AR devices with ARPublish.
- Introduced compatibility with ‘USD’ and ‘GLTF’ AR formats for mobile devices.
- Use RegionHausdorffDistance to measure the disparity between two regions and RegionFarthestDistance to compute the maximum distance between them.
- Use CircumscribedBall to calculate the minimal enclosing ball for a set of points, and InscribedBall to determine the maximum inscribed ball.
- Haloing creates a halo around a graphics object, typically used for text labels.
- ImageSynthesize generates an image from a textual prompt.
- FindImageShapes finds common shapes (lines, circles, ellipses, …) in an image.
- New functions to represent, load, and get pointers to functions in dynamic libraries: ForeignFunction, ForeignFunctionLoad, and ForeignPointerLookup.
- Several functions were added for raw memory operations: RawMemoryAllocate, RawMemoryFree, RawMemoryRead, RawMemoryWrite, RawMemoryImport, and RawMemoryExport.
- Support for memory-managed objects with ManagedObject, CreateManagedObject, and UnmanageObject.
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