Announcements

Sample applications showing how you can call Java services from Mathematica or control Mathematica from Java are now available for download. These examples all use the J/Link toolkit released earlier this year...
http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/mathlink/jlink/examples.html

Calculus WIZ is a unique study aid that allows students to concentrate on concepts, not computations. Given the correct parameters, Calculus WIZ can solve homework problems at the click of a button. The new stand-alone edition is the first in Wolfram Research's line of customized kernel products...
http://www.wolfram.com/wiz

Colleagues without Mathematica can read and print your notebooks using the free MathReader utility. Updated versions of MathReader for Windows and Macintosh, plus a new version for Unix platforms, can now be downloaded...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathreader

The Schedule of Events for the first "MathML and Math on the Web" conference, to be held October 20-21, 2000, has been announced...
http://www.mathmlconference.org/2000/schedule.html

FeynCalc, a Mathematica package for algebraic calculations in elementary particle physics with a focus on Feynman diagram calculations, is now being developed as an open-source project...
http://www.feyncalc.org

Visit the training calendar at http://www.wolfram.com/services/training/calendar.html for a listing of upcoming courses and workshops.

New Books

A Course in Computational Number Theory by David Bressoud and Stan Wagon...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN1930190107.str

Linear Algebra and Linear Operators in Engineering with Applications in Mathematica by H. Ted Davis and Kendall T. Thomson...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN012206349X.str

Practical Optimization Methods with Mathematica Applications by M. Asghar Bhatti...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0387986316.str

Did you know...?

...you can animate graphics in a notebook from the front end by choosing "Animate Selected Graphics" under the Cell menu, or from the kernel by entering the SelectionAnimate[ ] command...

...you can evaluate expressions right in the Help Browser to verify a function's output. For example, under "Built-in Functions," look up Plot3D, open "Further Examples," and then evaluate a cell to see the graphic. You can even change the function parameters to suit your needs and copy the entire expression into your notebook...

In the news...

Mathematica is "the way the world calculates." This new marketing campaign highlights some of the many applications of Mathematica from around the globe...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/worldad.html

Artist Stewart Dickson's 3-D Zoetrope, a Mathematica animation in physical 3D, was on display at last month's SIGGRAPH 2000...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/zoetrope.html

As a freshman at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, Carl McTague wrote a musical composition entitled "6 Integers." It was created using Mathematica and can be heard in its entirety online...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/mctague.html

Find more news at http://www.wolfram.com/news.