A surprising epic win: Wolfram Mathematica on ReactOS - Ros-dev

22 May 2017

Hi all,

I was pleasantly surprised to notice that the symbolic computation program «
Wolfram Mathematica », in its version 8.0.4 (later versions are for Vista+
only), actually works quite pretty well on ReactOS (as of r74550): see the
screen-capture at http://i.imgur.com/KegyW79.png .

This software is broadly used in many scientific, engineering, mathematical,
and computing fields. This is for example used intensively in theoretical
physics (in high-energy physics, statistical physics etc.) due to the
existence of numerous packages that have been developed for it. The only
problem of this software resides in its price

On the screen-capture I demonstrate an infinitesimal portion of what
Mathematica can do: for the non-connoisseurs :) the picture shows the
computation of the integral (area under the curve) of the 1-dimensional
Gaussian function over the whole real axis (the result is square-root of
pi), and then I plot in 3 dimensions the map of a 2-D Gaussian function,
where on the horizontal plane there are the x and y axes, and the vertical
axis is the z axis. The 3-D graph can be rotated, zoomed-in and out with the
mouse, it can be edited, etc The software also proposes an extensive and
interactive help documentation. Finally I show the fancy text-mode only
interface of Mathematica, that nobody actually uses (it is only used when
computing stuff in batch-mode).

There are almost no graphical glitches. Few font problems can be seen (see
the about-box, and the minus signs on the graph replaced by boxes). There
are few keyboard shortcut problems such as pressing (on French keyboards)
AltGr-5 to enter [ doesnt work, but anyways

Enjoy!

Best,

Hermès