The MATHEMATICA ® Book, Version 4 4th Edition

Was advertised as being ‘ like new.’ It was indeed.

Wolfram is one of the pioneers in mathematical modelling. His work is fascinating and this book is highly enlightening, albeit challenging to anyone but a professional mathematician. Nevertheless, one must be skeptical about accepting the outputs of models -- analytical math models or computation models -- until they have been verified empirically, a step that far too many modellers neglect. Far too many journal papers are filled with models whose outputs are presented as conclusions, rather than as what they really are: highly sophisticated hypotheses. What originally set science aside from philosophy was empirical verification. It is no less important now. (Stephen F. Stringham, PhD, ecologist)

This is Great. But little bit old. I think the author (Stephen Wolfram) should write a NEW EDDITION! Paper quality and quality of the cover is marvelous!

Stephen Wolfram continues to do a great job .ad this work shows it.

It Meet expectations

Pro:1. Well written to go from the simple to detailed.2. Good desk copy to supplement the pdf version.Con:1. Heavy

Mathematica can be a very daunting program for first time users. I remember when I first started using it back in 1997, and I was amazed with its power and conciseness. This is the best book on the subject and probably the only one you'll need by the author of the program himself. The book starts out with very simple concepts and builds on them to include just about anything you'd ever want to do with Mathematica, including the solution of indefinite integrals. The explanations are to the point, the examples are of sufficient complexity to demonstrate the features but not too complex, and the use of figures in the book is excellent. If you don't need the program's fancy graphics or sound capabilities, you won't have to suffer through inexplicable examples that use them. The author isolates the explanation of that portion of the program in its own chapters.There is a fifth edition of this book, but it is out of print, and sellers are asking ridiculously high prices for copies. Since an electronic version of this book comes with every copy of Mathematica you should do fine with this earlier in-print version.

I bought the 2nd edition of this book back in the early 90s when a student edition of the software was available to me inexpensively for the Mac. The book was very helpful in learning how to use the Mathematica program. There are examples galore and many graphical illustrations. As other reviewers have said, the whole book comes online with the software and you can easily search it, but I liked having an offline copy too. The later versions are just extensions of earlier ones.It is easy to learn how to do simple examples from the book. Suppose you want to plot the expression |x-y| + |x| + |y|. On page ix, before the book really begins, there is an example of the syntax to make a plot: Plot3D[ Sin[x y], {x,0,Pi}, {y,0,Pi} ]. In chapter 1 (p. 49) you learn that the absolute value is given by the Abs[x] function.So, you can type Plot3D[ Abs[x-y] + Abs[x] + Abs[y], {x,-2,2}, {y,-2,2}] to get a nice 3D plot of this expression, with x and y in the range -2 to 2. If you want to see a plot where the value of the expression is <= 2, you can restrict the Z range of the plot, as illustrated in chapter 1 (p. 157), like this:Plot3D[ Abs[x-y] + Abs[x] + Abs[y], {x,-2,2}, {y,-2,2}, PlotRange->{0,2} ].

consegna nei tempi. Libro acquistato usato ma in ottimo stato. Testo ottimo per la consultazione immediata delle varie funzioni di questo ottimo programma.

I am satisfied with the service, but the condition of the book is "good" not "very good" as was mentioned.