Mathematica is an incredibly powerful and useful environment for symbolic computing,
numerical computing and data visualization. To us, it is the flagship product that
gave the personal computing revolution its biggest boost. Some may counter that
spreadsheet programs or databases were more significant. For sure these products
have great relevance. But in those cases the application migrated from mainframe
computers to personal computers (PCs) and hence became more accessible. Considering
computing languages like FORTRAN we were so vexed by the low compiler
qualities for the PCs that we found them of little utility. Mathematica, on the other
hand, gave people a whole new power that had heretofore been unrealized.
