Getting Started. Data Analysis and Manipulation. Programming: The Beauty and Power of the Wolfram Language. Interactive Applications, Image Processing, and More. Accessing Scientific and Technical Information. Probability and Statistics. Calculating π and Other Mathematical Tales. Looking at the Sky. Nucleai and Radiation. Modeling: Applications in Biokinetics. Economic and Financial Applications. Faster, Further.
José Guillermo Sánchez León is an associate professor at the University of Salamanca and a Mathematica Consultant. He has participated in many research projects and published papers in which Mathematica has been a fundamental tool. He is a Wolfram Research certified instructor giving frequent seminars and training courses about the Wolfram Language.
This is a well-written book which from the start delivers on its
promise: showing how to use Mathematica for real world
applications, and not just solving problems from math classes. The
first few chapters give a good, quick introduction to the basics of
Mathematica, and between that and the references anyone with basic
coding experience (as well as most people without any!) will have
no trouble grasping the basics of the environment. The rest of the
book goes through numerous applications to real world problems,
highlighting features ranging from culling data to the web to image
manipulation and data presentation. There are good, detailed
explanations and a lot of code. I use Mathematica in many of my
classes, and will be recommending this to my students.
-Steven Miller, Professor of Mathematics, Williams CollegeThis text
serves as a useful window and guide to the impressive computing
power and data visualization capabilities of Mathematicaâ for
researchers and students working in a wide range of fields
(especially in the physical, biological, and social sciences, as
well as mathematics and statistics). The technical levels of the
text are multi-layered. The early chapters provide a user-friendly
introduction to the ever-expanding utility of Mathematicaâ as a
computational tool and as a powerful programming language. In
addition to exposing the reader to a substantial universe of
applications (e.g., astronomy, image processing, chemistry,
geodata, financial mathematics, etc.), the author also devotes a
chapter to elucidating The Beauty and Power of the Wolfram Language
as a programming language with functional capabilities based on a
symbolic paradigm. Even experienced users will likely gain new
insights into ways to leverage this remarkable system. Later
chapters serve as a helpful reference (with targeted step-by-step
examples) for those seeking to access and analyze extensive sets of
scientific and technical information. All chapters include a
closing section containing additional resources, most of which can
be accessed online. The author states that the main aim of the text
"is to reduce significantly the amount of time required to master
the tool." It is the opinion of this reviewer that, in the hands of
an engaged reader, the text is squarely on target.-Kendall
Richards, Southwestern University
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