From mailer@mercury.wolfram.com Fri Sep 01 18:52:37 2000 Received: from XXX.XXXX.XXX [XXX.XXX.XX.XXX] by XXXXXX.XXXX.XXX with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 13V2U1-00046L-00; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 18:52:37 -0700 Received: from XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXX.XXX [XXX.XXX.XXX.XX] (root) by XXX.XXXX.XXX with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13V2bC-0002Rw-00; Fri, 01 Sep 2000 19:00:03 -0700 Received: from mercury.wolfram.com (mercury.wolfram.com [140.177.203.78]) by XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXX.XXX (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e821qEd18728 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 18:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mercury.wolfram.com (Postfix, from userid 11300) id 7F60124CCD; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 12:54:08 -0500 (CDT) To: XXX@XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXX.XXX From: Wolfram Research Subject: MATHwire: Information for Mathematica Users Message-Id: <20000901175408.7F60124CCD@mercury.wolfram.com> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 12:54:08 -0500 (CDT) Sender: mailer@mercury.wolfram.com Status: RO --------------------- Announcements --------------------- Sample applications showing how you can call Java services from Mathematica or control Mathematica from Java are now available for download. These examples all use the J/Link toolkit released earlier this year... XXXX://www.wolfram.com/solutions/mathlink/jlink/examples.html Calculus WIZ is a unique study aid that allows students to concentrate on concepts, not computations. Given the correct parameters, Calculus WIZ can solve homework problems at the click of a button. The new stand-alone edition is the first in Wolfram Research's line of customized kernel products... XXXX://www.wolfram.com/wiz Colleagues without Mathematica can read and print your notebooks using the free MathReader utility. Updated versions of MathReader for Windows and Macintosh, plus a new version for Unix platforms, can now be downloaded... XXXX://www.wolfram.com/products/mathreader The Schedule of Events for the first "MathML and Math on the Web" conference, to be held October 20-21, 2000, has been announced... XXXX://www.mathmlconference.org/schedule.html FeynCalc, a Mathematica package for algebraic calculations in elementary particle physics with a focus on Feynman diagram calculations, is now being developed as an open-source project... XXXX://www.feyncalc.org Visit the training calendar at XXXX://www.wolfram.com/services/training/calendar.html for a listing of upcoming courses and workshops. ---------------------- New Books ---------------------- "A Course in Computational Number Theory" by David Bressoud and Stan Wagon... XXXX://store.wolfram.com/view/ISBN1930190107 "Linear Algebra and Linear Operators in Engineering with Applications in Mathematica" by H. Ted Davis and Kendall T. Thomson... XXXX://store.wolfram.com/view/ISBN012206349X "Practical Optimization Methods with Mathematica Applications" by M. Asghar Bhatti... XXXX://store.wolfram.com/view/ISBN0387986316 ---------------------- Did you know...? ---------------------- ...you can animate graphics in a notebook from the front end by choosing "Animate Selected Graphics" under the Cell menu, or from the kernel by entering the SelectionAnimate[ ] command... XXXX://documents.wolfram.com/v4/OtherInformation/CellMenu/SelectionAnimate.html ...you can evaluate expressions right in the Help Browser to verify a function's output. For example, under "Built-in Functions," look up Plot3D, open "Further Examples," and then evaluate a cell to see the graphic. You can even change the function parameters to suit your needs and copy the entire expression into your notebook... XXXX://documents.wolfram.com/v4/GettingStarted/QuickStart/None.html ----------------- In the news... ----------------- Mathematica is "the way the world calculates." This new marketing campaign highlights some of the many applications of Mathematica from around the globe... XXXX://www.wolfram.com/news/worldad.html Artist Stewart Dickson's "3-D Zoetrope," a Mathematica animation in physical 3D, was on display at last month's SIGGRAPH 2000... XXXX://www.wolfram.com/news/zoetrope.html As a freshman at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, Carl McTague wrote a musical composition entitled "6 Integers." It was created using Mathematica and can be heard in its entirety online... XXXX://www.wolfram.com/news/mctague.html Find more news at XXXX://www.wolfram.com/news. --------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe to this newsletter, send email to mathwire@wolfram.com. News items, comments, and suggestions are welcome at mweditor@wolfram.com. --------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to the following email address: ---------------------------------------------------------------