Of course, it’s not entirely fair to suggest a one-to-one comparison of Google Calculator to Wolfram|Alpha, because both quantitative and qualitative differences exist between them. As of October 2014, Wolfram|Alpha’s global Alexa rank was 2,868, while Google’s Alexa rank was-and continues to be-1. Although Wolfram has very cannily moved onto the web and into social media through Wolfram|Alpha, that engine is perhaps still less of a go-to math tool for average users than Google Calculator. Mathematica contains libraries of mathematical functions, computational tools for practices such as machine learning and data mining, and even free-form linguistic input for English-language queries.īut Mathematica was conceived in a pre-internet era. Since its release in 1988, the company’s flagship Mathematica software has become the “definitive system for modern technical computing” around the world, as its website says. Wolfram is arguably the world’s dominant mathematics software provider.
Why does Google take a philosophical position on mathematical processes? It may be to take Wolfram down a peg.
These new results become tools to aid further progress. The notion of “mathematical truth” depends on theorems being published with proof, letting the reader understand how new results build on the old, all the way down to basic mathematical axioms and definitions. Modern mathematics research is distinguished by its openness. In a blog announcement of the collaboration, Google throws down a gauntlet against claims of ownership of mathematical truths by the likes of Wolfram: Thanks to collaboration with Google’s cloud services, Sage is now in a position to draw more mathematicians to its community.
Sage, the free and open source analog to Wolfram Research’s Mathematica, is now SageMathCloud. Biology Digest/Physical Sciences Digest.The Information Advisor's Guide to Internet Research.Library Leaders Digital Strategy Summit.
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