Wolfram Mathematica

Wolfram Mathematica (usually called Mathematica) is a modern technical computing system made by Wolfram Research.^{[12][13][14][15]}

Wolfram Mathematica

Developer(s)	Wolfram Research
Initial release	June 23, 1988; 36 years ago (1988-06-23)[1]
Written in	Wolfram Language,[2] C/C++, Java[3]
Platform	Windows (7, 8, 10), macOS, Linux, Raspbian, online service.[4] All platforms support 64-bit implementations.[5] (list)
Available in	English, Chinese, Japanese
Type	numerical analysis, statistics, user interface creation
License	Proprietary
Website	www.wolfram.com/mathematica/

Wolfram Language

Paradigm	Multi-paradigm: term-rewriting, functional
Designed by	Stephen Wolfram
Developer	Wolfram Research
First appeared	1988
Stable release	12.1[6] / March 18, 2020; 5 years ago (2020-03-18)
OS	Cross-platform
License	Proprietary (available at no-cost for some platforms)[7]
Filename extensions	.nb, .m, .wl
Website	www.wolfram.com/language/
Major implementations
Mathematica, Wolfram|One, Mathics, Expreduce, MockMMA
Influenced by
C C++ FORTRAN Lisp Pascal Prolog Smalltalk[8] Symbolic Manipulation Program[9]
Influenced
Julia[10] Clojure[11]

Features

Today, Wolfram Mathematica is used for the following purposes:

• Computer science^[16]
• Data science^[17]
• Deep learning^[18]
• Geometry^[19]
• Interval arithmetic^[20]
• Machine learning^[21]
• Numerical analysis^[22]
  • Numerical linear algebra^[23]
  • Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations^{[24][25][26][27]}
  • Numerical methods for partial differential equations^[28][29]
• Neural network^[30][31]
• Optimization^[32]

This system is made with the Wolfram Language (programming language named after Stephen Wolfram).

Version history

Since 1988, Wolfram Research has released the following versions of Wolfram Mathematica:^[33]

• 1.0 – June 23, 1988^{[34][35][36][37]}
• 1.1 – October 31, 1988
• 1.2 – August 1, 1989^[37][38]
• 2.0 – January 15, 1991^[37][39]
• 2.1 – June 15, 1992^[37]
• 2.2 – June 1, 1993^[37][40]
• 3.0 – September 3, 1996^[41]
• 4.0 – May 19, 1999^[37][42]
• 4.1 – November 2, 2000^[37]
• 4.2 – November 1, 2002^[37]
• 5.0 – June 12, 2003^[37][43]
• 5.1 – October 25, 2004^[37][44]
• 5.2 – June 20, 2005^[37][45]
• 6.0 – May 1, 2007^[46][47]
• 7.0 – November 18, 2008^[48]
• 8.0 – November 15, 2010^[49]
• 9.0 – November 28, 2012^[50]
• 10.0 – July 9, 2014^[51]
• 10.1 – March 30, 2015^[52]
• 10.2 – July 14, 2015^[53]
• 10.3 – October 15, 2015
• 10.4 – March 2, 2016
• 11.0.0 – August 8, 2016^[54]
• 11.0.1 – September 28, 2016
• 11.1 – March 16, 2017^[55]
• 11.1.1 – April 25, 2017
• 11.2 – September 14, 2017^[56]
• 11.3 – March 8, 2018^[57]
• 12.0 – April 16, 2019^[58]
• 12.1 - March 18, 2020^[59]