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A New Way to Type—On the Wolfram|Alpha App
Version 1.1 of the Wolfram|Alpha App for the iPhone & iPod is now available in the App Store. The new version includes a number of new features that continue to improve the app’s unique mobile...
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Finding Roots
Steven Strogatz, a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University, is currently blogging for The New York Times about issues “from the basics of math to the baffling”. It’s been a fascinating...
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Wolfram|Alpha Goes to College
Hello, fellow readers of the Wolfram|Alpha Blog—my name’s Justin. In just a few short weeks, I’ll be graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Over the years I’ve found my own way...
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Special Functions in Wolfram|Alpha
Wolfram|Alpha computes things. While the use of computations to predict the outcomes of scientific experiments, natural processes, and mathematical operations is by no means new (it has become a...
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Talk to Wolfram|Alpha in TeX
In 1977, famed computer scientist Donald Knuth decided he didn’t like the typesetting of the second edition of The Art of Computer Programming. Rather than unhappily accept the results of photographic...
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New Features for Students of Complex Analysis
Why did the mathematician name his dog Cauchy? Because he left a residue at every pole! But could the mathematician find the poles and their residues for a given function? He certainly could, with the...
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From Simple to Chaotic Pendulum Systems in Wolfram|Alpha
Students of the history of science will recall learning that Galileo observed and described the periodic motion of a simple pendulum around 1602. Until being supplanted by other technologies around the...
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Wolfram Astronomy and Multivariable Calculus Apps Come to iOS
Today we are releasing Wolfram Multivariable Calculus and Wolfram Astronomy, the next two apps on a growing list of Wolfram Course Assistant Apps. These course assistants will help students learn their...
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Repeating Decimals in Wolfram|Alpha
In recent dinner conversation with my brother, I commented that I was “99.9 repeating” percent sure that my favorite author, Jorge Luis Borges, had lived into the 1980s (Wolfram|Alpha later showed me...
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Generating Polar and Parametric Plots in Wolfram|Alpha
In my last blog post on plotting functionality in Wolfram|Alpha, we looked at 2D and 3D Cartesian plotting. In this post, we will look at 2D polar and parametric plotting. For those of you unfamiliar...
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