![]() ![]() He was received like a rock star, at least I thought so.įor the past 25 years I have used Mathematica extensively for both research and teaching. He was curious about it and gave me a small problem to test Mathematica‘s integration capabilities.Ī bit later Stephen Wolfram came to Delft to discuss and demonstrate Mathematica. Alex Lande, a mathematician at the University of Groningen in the north of The Netherlands. Research groups… should acquire it.'”Įarly the next year I mentioned Mathematica to Prof. Press of Harvard) says flatly, ‘ Mathematica is a startlingly good tool. In the enclosed article from the most recent edition of Nature the reviewer (William H. My enthusiasm for Mathematica is shared by many. I purchased Mathematica this summer for $690 and have been using it since on my Macintosh II computer. This package represents a completely different approach to mathematics and–in my opinion–should be available to every researcher and every student in our department. “While I was in California this summer I came across a new software package, Mathematica, that was written by a physicist (Stephen Wolfram) for physicists and civilians. ![]() ![]() That prompted the following letter on 30 November 1988 to every member of our faculty: As one of the first in our department to be “vigilant” for software packages that could contribute significantly to our research and teaching–I came across Numerical Recipes in 1987–I was delighted when I stumbled across Mathematica a year later. I have been a Professor of Applied Physics at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands since 1981. ![]()
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