Abstract
Mathematica is not a statistical package. Rather it is the development environment of choice for developing math-based models for financial analysis, economics, management science, data graphics, and similar purposes. Mathematica implements almost a thousand mathematical functions and supports symbolic and graphical computations as well as numerical and is an ideal scientific visualization tool. Mathematica has a built-in programming language and comes with packages for statistics, calculus, linear algebra, geometry, number theory, and other operations. It also interfaces to C and FORTRAN code, MathLink communication, and Notebook interactive documents; and it supports animated graphics, sound, and PostScript output. In summary, Mathematica is a system for representing knowledge in mathematical fields.
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