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Musing about Rectangular Bar Magnets 27 Aug 2013 | 06:56 pm
(This is the third post in a three-part series about electrostatic and magnetostatic problems involving sharp edges.) In the first blog post of this series, we looked at magnetic field configurations...
The Wolfram Education Team’s Fall Events 23 Aug 2013 | 07:55 pm
The Wolfram Education Team is going all over the United States and even online this fall semester. We are excited to demonstrate new advances in Wolfram technologies and their applications in the clas...
Visualizing Our Place in the Milky Way Galaxy with Mathematica 21 Aug 2013 | 05:47 pm
In today’s world, people often forget about the wonders of the night sky. Modern conveniences provided by civilization such as electricity and lighting result in light pollution that obscures our view...
Even More Formulas… for Everything—From Filled Algebraic Curves to the Twitter Bird, the American Flag, Chocolate Easter Bunnies, and the Superman Sol... 15 Aug 2013 | 08:21 pm
This blog post is the continuation of my last two posts (1, 2) about formulas for curves. So far, we have discussed how to make plane curves that are sketches of animals, faces, fictional characters, ...
A Visit to Disney’s Magic Kingdom 13 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
I just finished giving a short presentation to several thousand screaming fans at the D23 Disney fan convention in Anaheim, California. When I say “screaming fans,” what I mean is Disney fans who were...
Attention Teachers and Educators—Good News! 10 Aug 2013 | 01:49 am
The Wolfram Demonstrations Project has newly organized its K–12 interactive content to fit United States Common Core State Standards. Engagement, exploration, discovery—these are the staples of good ...
Mathematica Summer Camp 2013 Comes to an End 5 Aug 2013 | 08:14 pm
Thirty-three extremely intelligent high school students gathered at Bentley University July 7-19 to participate in our second annual Mathematica Summer Camp. The program lasted two weeks, and within t...
Mathematica gets Big Data with HadoopLink 1 Aug 2013 | 12:56 am
HadoopLink is a package that lets you write MapReduce programs in Mathematica and run them on your Hadoop cluster. If that makes sense to you, feel free to skip this section and jump right to the cod...
Announcing Wolfram Community 24 Jul 2013 | 12:00 am
When 11-year-old Jesse Friedman won a programming prize at the Wolfram Technology Conference last year, I pondered the diversity of our global user community—from children to Nobel Prize laureates, fr...
Using Formulas… for Everything—From a Complex Analysis Class to Political Cartoons to Music Album Covers 20 Jul 2013 | 01:07 am
In my last blog post, I discussed how to construct closed-form trigonometric formulas for sketches of people’s faces. Using similar techniques, Wolfram|Alpha has recently added a collection of hundred...
