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AJAX Version of Mathematica Coming

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the this-is-not-mathematics-this-is-theology dept.

stoolpigeon writes "The O'Reilly School of Technology is teaming up with Wolfram Research to provide on-line math courses using an AJAX version of Mathematica. O'Reilly has posted an and interview with Scott Gray, the director of OST, that has more details on the program (named Hilbert after David Hilbert) itself as well as the classes they will be offering."

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  1. Sage also has a web interface by k2enemy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sage also has an AJAX interface.

    I've been making an effort to use Sage in place of Mathematica lately and so far I'm impressed. Although, right now I prefer using the CLI rather than the web interface.

    1. Re:Sage also has a web interface by Garridan · · Score: 5, Informative

      Actually, it's an AJ interface. Nobody actually uses XML. I think it's great -- of course, I'm one of the primary developers, so I've made it work pretty much how I like it. There are still some issues with it, but it's well over a year old, and pretty stable at this point. During the joint AMA/AMS meeting in San Diego, Eric Wesstein came up to the Sage booth, and said that he'd copied a bunch of stuff from Sage when he was working on the Combinatorica package. Now, it looks like they've copied a bunch of my ideas, too!

      I think this is a beautiful thing. When William Stein started Sage, he wanted to beat Magma. Soon thereafter, he decided that he'd need to catch up to Mathematica. Now, less than 3 years later, they're racing to catch up to us...

  2. Re:Matlab by caffeinemessiah · · Score: 5, Informative

    You mean Matlab isn't considered the best? I kid, I kid.

    Kid you may, but Mathematica is a computer algebra system, which means its good at manipulating symbolic mathematics. Matlab is primarily used for vector/matrix manipulation and is more engineering-oriented. I wish people would realize that in spite of the many commonalities (including the prefix "Mat"), they are different products with different uses and audiences.

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    An old-timer with old-timey ideas.
  3. The Hilbert Program by kabloom · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought Godel proved that the Hilbert Program was impossible. Now they want to write it in AJAX?

  4. SageMath by pablodiazgutierrez · · Score: 5, Informative

    The open source mathematic software compendium Sage already has something similar that you can test right away in SageNB. Interestingly, one of the possible backends is Mathematica.

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    To do list for Windows
  5. Parody by locokamil · · Score: 5, Funny

    The marketing meeting parody almost writes itself: "Guys, how can we possibly make our slow, bloated software even slower and even more bloated while making it buzzword-compliant?"