Through December 31, free ground shipping is available for eligible purchases from our online store...
http://store.wolfram.com

MathOptimizer Professional is a Mathematica application package offering advanced methods for the solution of continuous global and convex optimization problems...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/mathoptpro

UnRisk Pricing Engine 1.8 adds new functionality and options for the analysis of financial derivatives...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/unrisk

A second beta version of Web Services Package is now available...
http://webservices.wolfram.com

Upcoming Events

The Mathematica Gulf Conference, the first of its kind to be held on the Arabian Peninsula, will take place in Muscat, Oman, on January 26, 2004...
http://www.wolfram.com/services/seminars/gulf2004

See "a new kind of science" develop at the NKS 2004 Conference and Minicourse, April 22-25, 2004, in Boston, Massachusetts...
http://www.wolframscience.com/conference/2004

The Sixth International Mathematica Symposium (IMS 2004) will be held August 2-6, 2004, in Banff, Canada. The Call for Papers has been issued with initial submissions due by February 29, 2004...
http://www.ims2004.com

Follow the newest directions in technical computing at the Wolfram Technology Conference, October 21-23, 2004, in Champaign, Illinois...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/events/techconf2004

Wolfram Education Group is now offering advanced training in using Mathematica for image processing and neural networks. For a complete list of these and all other training classes, see...
http://www.wolfram.com/weg/calendar.cgi

New Online

There are many popular images from A New Kind of Science. You can download these images directly from wolframscience.com...
http://wolframscience.com/downloads

The 536 solutions for the world's oldest puzzle, the loculus of Archimedes, are given in this Mathematica notebook...
http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/5108

This Coding Theory package was developed for the course "Error-Correcting Codes with Mathematica"...
http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/5085

AELink is an application that allows Mac OS X users to send AppleEvents from Mathematica...
http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/5114

See how to construct zonotiles, a generalization of Penrose tilings, in which rhombs, hexagons, and other shapes arise...
http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/1197

New in Print

Front-End Vision and Multi-Scale Image Analysis by Bart M. ter Haar Romeny...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN1402015070.str

Mathematica for Differential Equations: Projects, Insights, Syntax and Animations by David Calvis...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0131439766.str

CalcLabs with Mathematica for Stewart's Multivariable Calculus, Fifth Edition, by Selwyn Hollis...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0534393624.str

Did you know...?

...there's a completely new NDSolve in Mathematica 5, with a host of new automatically selected methods and options such as StepMonitor and EvaluationMonitor for monitoring progress...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/newin5/numeric

...the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+L (Windows and Unix) or Command+L (Macintosh) makes a copy of the last input cell that appears above, so you can edit and re-execute it...
http://documents.wolfram.com/v5/FrontEnd/MenuCommands/InputMenu/CopyInputFromAbove.html

...typing Alt+Enter (Windows and Unix) or Option+Return (Macintosh) in a cell creates another cell in the same style. This option can also be found on the Input menu as the command Start New Cell Below...
http://documents.wolfram.com/v5/FrontEnd/MenuCommands/InputMenu/StartNewCellBelow.html

In the news...

Scientific Computing & Instrumentation says that Mathematica 5 "is faster, smarter, [and] able to handle more types of problems," while Computer Shopper gives Version 5 five stars. Read this and other recent media coverage...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/coverage.html

Mathematica was recently used to discover the 40th and largest Mersenne prime number...
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2003-12-02/mersenne

John Cramer experienced an explosion of media attention when he used Mathematica to simulate the sound of the Big Bang...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/bigbangsound.html