Tungsten and Mathematica are available for free for Raspberry Pi

Only three days have passed since the announcement of a large-scale project from Stephen Wolfram, which has already been written in Habré , as it became known that the Wolfram language ( Wolfram Language ) can be tested in practice: it is available for the Raspberry Pi platform together with the Mathematica mathematical package today - and completely free. Subscribers to receive news about the Wolfram language have received a newsletter with the news about it . Below is a translation of it (the article was written on behalf of the developers of Raspberry Pi).


Drawing 3D graphics in Mathematica on Raspberry Pi

One of the remarkable features of the work on the creation of the Raspberry Pi has always been the opportunity to meet groups of people who share our views on the necessary changes in the teaching of computer science. One such example is the direction of computer mathematics ( computer-based math, CBM ), which seeks to divert the teaching of mathematics in schools from mechanical computation towards solving problems. Excerpt from the site of this project:
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The importance of mathematics for the labor market, society and thinking in general has increased dramatically over the past decades. In the meantime, learning math is in crisis around the world - deviating more and more from what countries, industry, further education ... and students themselves need.

Computers are the main cause of this gap: only shifting all the calculations on them, mathematics is applicable to solving complex problems in many areas. Computer science has influenced practical mathematics; Now is the time for such fundamental changes in the field of teaching mathematics among the masses.

computerbasedmath.org is a project aimed at achieving this rethinking. We form a completely new course in mathematics based on computer calculations, aiming to redefine the study of mathematics at all levels - moving away from the historical methods of manual computation and moving towards situations that require solving problems from the real world and which set the direction for the development of higher mathematics.

Today at a conference on computer maths (CBM) in New York, we announced a collaboration with Wolfram Research to deliver a free copy of Mathematica and Wolfram as part of the Raspbian system images. We believe this will make the Raspberry Pi an excellent learning platform for CBM techniques for children of all ages. As Konrad Wolfram stated today: “Programmers will be able to use the full power of the Mathematica package right out of the box, not only expanding the range of their capabilities, but also demonstrating the power and importance of mathematics.”


Extremely inappropriate application of the Heaviside step function

Subsequent images of the Raspbian system will contain the default Wolfram and Mathematica language. Current users who have at least 600 MB of free space on the SD card will be able to install using the following command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wolfram-engine 

The Mathematica package will be found in the application launcher in the Education menu.

We want to thank the Wolfram Research team for the incredible efforts they have put into in order that Wolfram and Mathematica can work well on the Raspberry Pi platform. Over the next few months, we plan to publish a series of articles devoted to the study of those interesting things that you can do with the help of Wolfram. It will be fun!