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"The other software I bought was the Mathematica package for Linux,
which is still absolutely the best math software on the planet. No other
software
approaches its depth of functionality and breadth of installation base. Mathematica takes the most extensive collection of computation and
visualization tools you'll find anywhere, and puts it right on your
desktop. Mathematica surpasses the contents of thousands of
mathematical tables, hundreds of reference books, and dozens of software systems. If
you--like me--do a lot of math, then there is nothing like
Mathematica to actually calculate your stuff."
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Moshe Bar, Byte.com (December 3, 2001)
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"The product..., Mathematica, is an impressive piece of work,
clearly reflecting Wolfram's
no-compromises approach. When users report some limitation of
Mathematica, the development team sees it as an opportunity to
generalize solutions, to dig deeper into the math, rather than to
come up with a quick fix. That's not just the corporate line, you can
tell from using the product that those are the priorities at Wolfram
Research."
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Michael Swaine, Dr. Dobb's Journal (March 2001)
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"The canonical diamond might be Wolfram Research's Mathematica. If you'd
never seen a computer before, and someone showed you Mathematica,
you'd be thrilled to accept it as your definition of what a computer does.
Arithmetic, symbolic calculation, processing of images and production
of formatted documents all are grist for Mathematica's mill.
"...When Wolfram Research ships a Mathematica upgrade, the world's
work
gets done more quickly...."
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Peter Coffee, eWEEK (March 12, 2001)
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"Mathematica has always included a fairly capable statistics
package, but it got bogged down with large data sets forcing users to invest in a
dedicated statistics program. Regression calculations, one of the most
useful applications, were particularly slow. The speed improvement on
regression from 4.0 to 4.1 is truly startling--the first time I tried
it on a standard test problem, I thought I had accidentally called up a
previously calculated result. Mathematica is now a real alternative
to a dedicated statistics program....
 "...The
modest version-number increase is misleading--this is an essential
upgrade."
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Charles Seiter, Macworld (February 5, 2001)
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"It is hard to imagine a scientific software tool that is equally useful to a math professor,
a cardiologist, a protein chemist, a population biologist, a civil engineer, an architect,
and an atmospheric scientist. Mathematica is just such a program."
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John A. Wass, Science (December 17, 1999)
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"Mathematica's dominance in the science and engineering market
is so absolute that nearly anyone who'd have a use for it would have heard
of it. Mathematica has long been the premier symbolic package for
mathematicians and theoretical physicists. It is famous for its
high-quality, three-dimensional graphics, its ability to handle
arbitrary-precision arithmetic, its symbolic-processing abilities, and its
enormous, dictionary-size hardback manual."
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Ian Sammis, MacAddict (December 1, 1999)
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"One of the most striking improvements is faster computation....
"...Version 4 is larger, smoother, and more efficient in many respects...."
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Kenneth R. Foster, IEEE Spectrum (April 1999)
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"...now an all-purpose tool kit for any task relating to
processing and communicating technical information.
"Mathematica's number-crunching abilities...[are] downright revolutionized....
"...Mathematica no longer has any direct competitors on the Mac--or,
for that matter, on PCs and Unix systems....
"...the finest environment for technical computing and publication
ever developed. It's simply the most impressive program I've seen in ten
years of reviewing technical software."
"RATING:  PROS: Anticipates and solves a wealth of computing and publication problems; faster
than Version 3.0.
CONS: None."
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Charles Seiter, Macworld (October 1999)
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"...this version adds important speed improvements under the hood
and a host of other enhancements....
"Any Mathematica user, especially those who do extensive
numerical calculations, will certainly want this upgrade...."
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Barry Simon, Desktop Engineering (September 1999)
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"Le logiciel fait également preuve d'une bonne maturité pour
le chercheur qui doit publier....les résultats s'exportent également
en texte, TeX et HTML.
"Tous ceux qui possèdent une licence Mathematica3.0.x ont
intérêt à acquérir rapidement la dernière mouture de Mathematica....Mathematica 4.0 a subi une véritable cure de
jouvence dans son code. Résultat ? Les calculs numériques et
matriciels s'effectuent avec une délicieuse rapidité....
"...Mathematica nous semble remarquable par bien des aspects et s'avère,
assurément, synonyme de gains de production et de stimulation de la
créativité mathématique."
[English translation]
"This software makes equal
proof of a good maturity for the researcher who wants to publish....the results
export themselves equally in text, TeX, and HTML.
"All those who already have a Mathematica 3.0.x license had
better quickly acquire the latest release of Mathematica....Mathematica
4.0 has undergone a veritable 'cure of youth'
inside its code. The result? Numerical and matricial calculus are done
with a delicious rapidity....
"...Mathematica seems to us remarkable for many aspects, and
proves itself, assuredly, synonymous with gains in productivity and
stimulation of mathematical creativity."
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Pierre-Alain Buino, Macworld France (September 1999)
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"Indeed, it is very difficult to find anyone to say anything bad about Mathematica!
"The Mathematica literature says that such speed improvements
take Mathematica from a prototyping system to a production system
and I, for one, am inclined to agree. It is now entirely possible to
consider using Mathematica in semi-real-time applications where
previously dedicated code would have been required.
"...Mathematica 4 is a key step forward in the degree of easy-to-use computational power on a desktop machine."
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Mike James, Computer Shopper UK (October 1999)
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