Announcements

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, developed with the support of Wolfram Research, is the web's most extensive mathematics resource. Explore the new MathWorld at http://mathworld.wolfram.com.

J/Link, a new Mathematica toolkit that integrates Mathematica and Java, is freely available for download as a preview release. For further details, visit http://www.wolfram.com/news/jlink.html.

New to the Mathematica Applications Library is Database Access Kit, a package that provides a seamless interface between Mathematica and ODBC-compatible relational databases. Read the new product release at http://www.wolfram.com/news/dbak.html.

The Beginner's Guide to Mathematica Version 4, by Jerry Glynn and Theodore Gray, has just arrived in the Mathematica Bookstore at http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0521771536.str.

Mathematica in the Mountains, a graded sequence of instructional and specialized courses on Mathematica, will be held from June 26 to July 1, 2000. Visit http://www.mountainmath.com/mathematica for information on courses and registration.

Parallel Computing Toolkit, a new Mathematica application package, brings parallel computation to anyone having access to more than one computer on a network or to a multiprocessor computer. Learn more at http://www.wolfram.com/news/pct.html.

Derivatives Expert 2, the newly updated financial application package, provides users of Mathematica 4 with a flexible environment for exploring, prototyping, and testing financial models. For more information, visit http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/derivatives.

Did you know...?

...you can make your Mathematica programs run faster by using machine-precision numbers and avoiding procedural programming. Find out how to use these and other programming suggestions at http://library.wolfram.com/howtos/faster.

...you can globally set options to Plot for an entire Mathematica session and save those changes for use in future sessions. Visit http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/kernel/Symbols/System/SetOptions.html for further information on using SetOptions.

...the AutoSave option can help prevent notebook losses by automatically saving a notebook each time an evaluation is completed. In the Option Inspector (located under the Format pull-down menu), set "Show option values for" to "notebook". Type "autosave" in the Lookup box. Click Lookup. NotebookAutoSave will be highlighted. Click the check-box and the Apply button, and the AutoSave option will be turned on. Visit http://documents.wolfram.com/v4/OtherInformation/OptionInspector.html for more on using the Option Inspector to set preferences.

In the news...

Read highlights from the 1999 Mathematica Developer Conference. Access conference proceedings from talks on Mathematica programming, numerics, publishing, and other topics, as well as beta tutorials, at http://library.wolfram.com/conferences/devconf99.

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