Why I buy this one ?
- Creates publication-quality documents with its customizable, cross-platform file format
- Fully-integrated, technical, computing system; symbolic & numeric computation
- Used by over a million scientists, engineers, analysts, educators, and students
- High-performance optimization and linear programming, data analysis, and visualization
- A uniquely productive programming language

What our customer's say!

"Good symbolic math capabilities, ANNOYING activation", I am a graduate student in mathematics. I have found Mathematica to be a very powerful symbolic mathematics program and it has helped me a great deal in my studies. At times the interface is a bit counterintuitive, but it's not bad overall. Documentation isn't very good in the student version, but it may be better in the real version.

My main complaint is the activation process. I often change hardware around or reinstall my operating system. Every time I do that, I have to speak to Wolfram and justify to them my hardware changes before they decide if they will allow me to enter a new activation code to continue to use the product that I purchased. I even purchased 2 licenses for it (one for Linux, one for Windows, so I could use it in both).

Other people I know used the cracked versions that are available, and they have it much easier than I do. They don't have their software unavailable half the time while they are waiting on Wolfram to decide if they should get another activation code.

They need to stop punishing their paying, legal customers and making us miserable because of those individuals out there who are dishonest.

I was initially planning to upgrade to the full version after I graduate, but I have decided to look at other packages that won't give me so much grief. I shouldn't have to explain to Wolfram why I wanted to change my hard drive or video card. It's none of their business.