{"id":1258,"date":"2009-05-14T13:58:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T12:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2009-05-14T13:58:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T12:58:40","slug":"will-wolfram-alpha-negatively-affect-mathematica-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"Will Wolfram Alpha negatively affect Mathematica sales?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wolfram alpha blog has posted a set of Wolfram Alpha examples where it <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wolframalpha.com\/2009\/05\/13\/math-of-course\/\">does some pretty complicated mathematics<\/a>.\u00a0 For example it can calculate the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a 3&#215;3 symbolic matrix &#8211; just the sort of thing you might turn to Mathematica for.<\/p>\n<p>In another example it shows the result of a symbolic integral <strong>(<\/strong>which Mathematica can do<strong>) and<\/strong> it gives the steps that a human would need to do to get the same result (which Mathematica can&#8217;t do).<\/p>\n<p>I know that Mathematica can do inifnitely more than one-liner calculations such as these but it makes me wonder.\u00a0 Will there be less call for the new, cheap(er) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/products\/mathematicahomeedition\/\">home editition of Mathematica<\/a> once Wolfram Alpha goes live?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wolfram alpha blog has posted a set of Wolfram Alpha examples where it does some pretty complicated mathematics.\u00a0 For example it can calculate the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a 3&#215;3 symbolic matrix &#8211; just the sort of thing you might turn to Mathematica for. In another example it shows the result of a symbolic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematica","category-wolfram-alpha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-ki","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}