Mathematica
Mathematica V2-1
Mathematica was a comprehensive system for doing mathematics by computer. Scientists, engineers, mathematicians, financial analysts and many others took advantage of its powerful numerical, symbolic, graphical and programming capabilities. Mathematica's numerical capabilities included: algebraic and differencial equation solving, integration, linear algebra, statistics, linear programming and higher mathematical functions. It provided symbolic solutions of algebraic and differential equations, integration, differentiation, series expansion and limit, as well as polynomial expansion, factorization and simplification.

Mathematical graphical capabilities allowed you to create two- and three-dimensional graphics, contour plots and density plots, all in exportable, publication-quality PostScript form. Most versions of Mathematica also support animation and sound.

In addition to using Mathematica's, many built-in functions, it was easy to define your own functions in Matheinatica's high-level programming language, which supported procedural, functional and rule-based programming styles. Almost every aspect of Matheniatica was under user control and Mathematica programs written on one computer system could be run on any other.

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