Continuations

On Friday evening the much anticipated WolframAlpha launched publicly. It is great fun to play around with, not only because it has some hilarious easter eggs, but because there is a renewed sense of exploration. At least I found myself coming up with ever new queries to see what it knows (computes) and what it doesn’t. For instance, here are two queries that show off the range of WolframAlpha:how old is Barack Obama? area under x^2 between 2 and 4?One thing is for sure – a lot of homework wi...

There is an amazing tool out there for teaching and learning about Math (and the world) and not enough people know about it. If you have never tried it out before, you should head over to Wolfram Alpha right now. Wolfram Alpha describes itself as a computational knowledge engine which may not mean much to people and the sparse home page with just a search box doesn’t help if you have never heard of it before. But as a starter you could think of it as the intersection of the world’s best graph...