Mathematica documentation - for newest and older versions
Bob F
in one place for older versions of Mathematica and webMathematica and
gridMathematica and Mathematica CalcCenter and Publicon, apparently in
English, Japanese, Chinese, French, and German, along with about 20
packages. It is located at http://reference.wolfram.com/siteindex.html
-- and there is even a PDF version of Stephen Wolfram's classic
"Mathematica Book" for version 5 at http://reference.wolfram.com/legacy/v5_2/Mathematica_V5_Book.zip
if you don't already have a copy (this is the 1464 page book that is
no longer in print and is a wonderful source of information IMHO).
I have not noticed this before, but think it's a great resource that
people can use. Thanks very much Wolfram for putting all this into one
nice web site tree like this!!!
Now if only the PDF versions of the Documentation Center content for
version 7.0 were done, life would be grand indeed!!!! (but they are
are on their way the web site says -- see http://www.wolfram.com/learningcenter/tutorialcollection/
to see what they are intending to have if you have not seen this
before. It appears that you will be able to order hardcopies (for a
fee) of all the 7.0 documentation as well as download free versions of
the PDF files for each of the sections. I am hoping that they also
have one complete PDF file that has everything in it to make searching
for things in the Mathematica documentation possible without the
Documentation Center, although I agree that not having the ability to
treat the documentation as a normal Mathematica notebook to play
around with, will be hard to get used to not having. But I think it
will provide a nice addition to the family of tools available to help
with learning and using Mathematica!!
Kudo's to Wolfram for providing these sorts of tools!!
-Bob
meitnik
But when I compared the online help of a local version to these new
docs, I see some differences, good ones as far I can tell now.
It looks like a more classic narrative/descriptive approach is used.
Yeah.
And, WRI, thank for making the PDF free download. :-)
Andrew
Sjoerd C. de Vries
would be better than having the doc centre. For starters, if you
intend to read the PDF on your computer: the doc centre already has a
Virtual Book built-in and if you like it on paper: this PDF is so huge
that you're never going to print it (it's going to cost you at least
$150).
Cheers -- Sjoerd
On Apr 20, 7:25 am, Bob F <deepyog...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just discovered that Wolfram now has all the documentation collected
> in one place for older versions of Mathematica and webMathematica and
> gridMathematica and Mathematica CalcCenter and Publicon, apparently in
> English, Japanese, Chinese, French, and German, along with about 20
> packages. It is located athttp://reference.wolfram.com/siteindex.html
> -- and there is even a PDF version of Stephen Wolfram's classic
> "Mathematica Book" for version 5 athttp://reference.wolfram.com/legacy/v5=
_2/Mathematica_V5_Book.zip
> if you don't already have a copy (this is the 1464 page book that is
> no longer in print and is a wonderful source of information IMHO).
>
> I have not noticed this before, but think it's a great resource that
> people can use. Thanks very much Wolfram for putting all this into one
> nice web site tree like this!!!
>
> Now if only the PDF versions of the Documentation Center content for
> version 7.0 were done, life would be grand indeed!!!! (but they are
> are on their way the web site says -- seehttp://www.wolfram.com/learningc=
Murray Eisenberg
Bob F wrote:
>
> Now if only the PDF versions of the Documentation Center content for
> version 7.0 were done, life would be grand indeed!!!! (but they are
> are on their way the web site says -- see http://www.wolfram.com/learningcenter/tutorialcollection/
> to see what they are intending to have if you have not seen this
> before. It appears that you will be able to order hardcopies (for a
> fee) of all the 7.0 documentation as well as download free versions of
> the PDF files for each of the sections....
>
> Kudo's to Wolfram for providing these sorts of tools!!
--
Murray Eisenberg mur...@math.umass.edu
Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H)
University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801
Amherst, MA 01003-9305
peter
order - that would be different.
2009/4/21 Murray Eisenberg <mur...@math.umass.edu>
--
Peter Lindsay
Murray Eisenberg
from the Learning Center.
Bob F wrote:
>
> ... PDF versions of the Documentation Center content ... are [at]
> http://www.wolfram.com/learningcenter/tutorialcollection/
> to see what they are intending to have if you have not seen this
> before. It appears that you will be able to order hardcopies (for a
> fee) of all the 7.0 documentation as well as download free versions of
> the PDF files for each of the sections....
--