I just finished reading this book titled:
The man who loved only numbers.
which was about Paul Erdos one of the
greatest Mathematicians of our time.. great book

well anyway i was reading a article on math
programs and they were talking about
Stephen Wolfram who obtained his Phd in
theoretical physics from Caltech at the age
of 20. But any way he has a product out
there from his company Wolfram Research
called Mathematica. Has anyone ever heard
of it or used it??????


It sounds quite interesting....

You can program in Mathematica in a
C like procedural fashion, with the usual
assignments and loops and such, or you can
treat it as a rule based language like Prolog,
or as a string based language like Snobol--
pretty much everything you type in Mathematica
is a function a returns a value. You can
write programs that look something like Lisp.

Then there's the Java intergration. J/Link lets
Mathematica call Java functions and let's any Java program controll the Mathematica kernal.


Sounds pretty cool and too many features too list
but if any one has everheard of or used it reply
back..

Thanks