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MathWorld is an online mathematics encyclopedia with over 10,000 entries, freely accessible to all internet users. Sponsored by Wolfram Research, MathWorld is enriched with Mathematica animations, interactive graphics, code snippets, and expanded information on related Mathematica commands and algorithms...
http://mathworld.wolfram.com

Mathematica for Mac OS X is now shipping. This fully native version of Mathematica for Mac OS X offers users significant speed gains and vastly improved stability compared to running Mathematica on earlier Macintosh operating systems...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/mformacosx.html

Microsoft Windows XP has been added to the list of supported platforms for Mathematica 4.1...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/windowsxp.htm

Selected talk notebooks from the 2001 Mathematica Developer Conference are now available online. Topics range from user-interface enhancements and numerical functionality to book, courseware, and application development. Particular emphasis is placed on webMathematica, MathML, XML, and J/Link...
http://library.wolfram.com/conferences/devconf2001

Wolfram Education Group offers certified Mathematica training to individuals and corporations. A current listing of January through June 2002 course dates and locations has already been posted, so sign up early. Online registration and additional information about Wolfram Education Group are available...
http://www.wolfram.com/services/training/education

Wolfram Research has put together a page of holiday gift ideas, including The Mathematical Explorer, for the Mathematica users and other mathematically inclined individuals on your list...
http://www.wolfram.com/products/holiday

Featured New Book

Fundamentals of Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines and Mechanisms by Oleg Vinogradov...
http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0849302579.str

Did you know...?

...MathLink provides a general interface for external programs to communicate with Mathematica. It is a library of functions that implement a protocol for sending and receiving Mathematica expressions. Many standard software systems now have MathLink compatibility either built in or available in add-on modules. A MathLink tutorial and additional reference information are available...
http://library.wolfram.com/tips/mathlink.html

...you can perform multivariate linear regression with the Mathematica function Regress. This and other related functions can be found in the standard add-on package Statistics. An example of basic ordinary least squares (OLS) regression on a data set with three independent variables is shown here...
http://library.wolfram.com/howtos/regress

In the news...

CalculationCenter from Wolfram Research was recently selected as a finalist for the 2001 Macworld Editors' Choice Awards for Best Science/Engineering Software...
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0112/03.eddy.php

Mathematica user and physicist Rene Ferdinands has been using Mathematica to investigate the dynamics of the bowling action in the illustrious game of cricket, thereby providing a mechanical basis for evaluating player technique...
http://www.wolfram.com/news/cricket.html