1. Stephan Wolfram : Mathematica Hyun Ik Choi COMP 1631 Winter 2011

2. Who is Stephan Wolfram? Born in London, 1959 Educated in Eton, Oxford, Caltech First scientific paper at the age of 15 Ph.D in theoretical Physics In Caltech at the age of 20 Youngest recipient of McArthur Prize Fellowship Creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha Author of A New Kind of Science Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research

3. Wolfram Research Founded in 1987, by Stephen Wolfram Software company – pioneers in computational science and computational paradigm Main product : Mathematica Also develops a web base application : Wolfram Alpha

4. What is Mathematica? Computational software Programmed in C language Used in Science, Engineer, Mathematics, and technical computing  Professional areas Also used for educational purpose –E.g High School Calculus Class, University Linear Algebra Class

5. History of Mathematica Late 1970s Stephen uses computer algebra for his studys Complex, time consu- ming Stephen decides to build his own system

6. History of Mathematica December 1980 First draft for SMP –Symbolic Manipulation program –The prototype of Mathe- matica –Runs on a mini comput- er

7. History of Mathematica June 23 rd 1988 –Mathematica 1.0 released –Comes on 5 floppy disks –The actual history of Mathematica begins

8. History of Mathematica Now –November 15 th 2010 –Mathematica 8 releases –Continues to add functions and applications

9. How it looks like A simple menu bar for various manipulation A blank notebook that is mainy used in Mathematica (type in codes)

10. Mathematica Basics You should press Alt+Enter instead of just pressing Enter to get an output for your input Simply pressing Enter will only change the line in the notebook You also have to type in the exact function correctly (Upper case, Lower case Alphabet also matters when writing a code, just like writing a program with programming language)

11. Some Basic Functions Differentiation D[f(x),x] Example Input : D[x^2,x] Output : 2x Unknown

12. Some Basic Functions Integration Integrate[f(x),x] Example Unknown

13. Some Basic Functions Plotting graphs Plot[f(x),{x,min,max}] Example Range that will show

14. Demonstrations Pre-made materials for educational/demostrative purposes Over 5000 demonstrations available on internet Not only for math –All kinds of subjects

15. Demonstrations Examples of fields –Mathematics –Computation –Physical Science –Life Science –Business –Systems –Engineering –etc

16. Works Cited Stephen, Wolfram. “About Stephen Wolfram” www.stephenwolfram.com www.wolfram.com/ demonstrations.wolfram.com