Reviews

Genstat for Windows 9th Edition
26 October 2006

This latest version of VSN's heavyweight flagship is everything that users would expect. It also builds on recent work to dramatically enhance the facilities for exploratory users.

Igor Pro 5.0
21 September 2006

Felix Grant reviews this technical graphics program that delivers everything you would expect - and more.

A brief history of maths
01 January 2006

Brian Cogan reviews The Mathematical Explorer, an unusual piece of educational software

 

mathcad for the engineer
01 January 2006

Ray Girvan reviews the XP-compliant Mathcad 2001i which has an increased focus on engineering

Differential approaches
01 January 2006

Ray Girvan on two alternative packages reflecting a common quest for PDE solutions.

Online help at hand
01 January 2006

Brian Cogan analyses the opportunities presented by webMathematica, an online version of the successful Wolfram software.

Northern odyssey reveals the very best of both worlds
01 January 2006

Felix Grant took data-mining software, S-Plus 6.1 and Insightful Miner, into the frozen wilderness and found that he could not choose between them

Capturing knowledge with pure maths
01 January 2006

Mathematics is ubiquitous and Ray Girvan finds that Maple 10 has evolved to put a friendly face on deep maths

Gimme five...
01 January 2006

When the imminent Mathematica release 5.0 was announced, at the beginning of June, it was the first full-digit upgrade for four years. Even incremental updates had only come twice within that time; that's unusual these days.

TecPlot's no square
01 January 2006

It's some while since I last looked at TecPlot - more than two years, in fact, at release 9. A lot has happened in the time between.

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