Re: Mathematica....How does it work?

From: david fowler (dfowler@unl.edu)
Date: Sat May 29 1993 - 02:50:23 UTC

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pw@maemaster.eng.uci.edu (Venkataraman Nagaswamy) writes:

> I am told that Mathematica uses cell automata theory to work. Could
>someone in lay terms explain how Mathematica works?
>Venkat
Mathematica in its present form is a comprehensive program for doing a
wide range of theoretical and applied mathematics. It is constructed 
from about 300,000 lines of computer code, mostly in the C language. 
The overal system design is by Stephen Wolfram, a physicist noted for 
contributions to cellular automata theory, among other 
accomplishments. You can construct CA's with Mathematica. As a 
programming language, Mathematica has a uniquely protean aspect--it 
looks like Pascal to Pascal programmers, it looks like Lisp to Lisp 
programmers...

David Fowler
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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