

The plot below is quite striking, too. It shows the growth in the number of functions in Mathematica over the past 20 years. One metric is that Mathematica 7 introduces about 500 new functions. Some of them are pretty trivial, but a remarkable number are “superfunctions” that automate huge areas of functionality, and each of those contains many separate large algorithms. You can find lots of details of what’s new in Mathematica 7 on the web. So 18 months after the release of Mathematica 6, I’m happy to be able to announce that today Mathematica 7 is released! So we were able to take those remarkable things that were being built, and flow them into Mathematica.Īnd at some point, we realized we just couldn’t wait any longer. Even though Mathematica 6 had come out only last year, we had assembled so much new functionality that we just had to release Mathematica 7. It was crucial that over the years, we’d invested a huge amount in creating long-term systems for organizing our software development efforts. Well, now, suddenly, lots of them seemed like they were within reach. It seemed as if everything we’d built into Mathematica was coming together to make a huge number of new things possible.Īll over our company, efforts were starting up to build remarkable things. We introduced a great many highly visible innovations in Mathematica 6-like dynamic interactivity and computable data. But we were also building a quite unprecedented platform for developing software.Īnd even long before Mathematica 6 was released, we were already working on versions of Mathematica well beyond 6.Īnd something remarkable was happening. There’d been all sorts of areas we’d talked about someday being in Mathematica. But they’d always seemed far off.


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