PSA: @Stephen_Wolfram just released a notebook version of WolframAlpha. I can't tell you how many times I've used WolframAlpha as an undergrad learning more advanced math, or as a researcher when dealing with some very very ugly integral. https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/09/the-ease-of-wolframalpha-the-power-of-mathematica-introducing-wolframalpha-notebook-edition/ …
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wait .. isn't a notebook version of WolframAlpha just Mathematica?
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Replying to @InertialObservr @JohnCUrschel
Yeah, doesn't MIT have a Mathematica site license? Why use WolframAlpha when you can use Mathematica?
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Replying to @RealFuzzyMarmot @InertialObservr
Great Q. I use Mathematica when I want to perform some very complicated symbolic-type operation to test some hypothesis I have. Or, in one case, to assist in a proof (see http://math.mit.edu/~urschel/instabilities.pdf …). One of the biggest benefits of WolframAlpha for me is interface and ease of use.
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Replying to @JohnCUrschel @RealFuzzyMarmot
there are many benefits to the WA interface if you just want to get a rough idea of something and you don't want to specify, say, the range of a plot .. I also thought that MM had a built in WA interface via ctrl+= command, but it seems like the added benefit 1/2
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from what i've been able to read is that you can use the interface and its output as input to other calculations .. For heavy lifting it's probably not the go-to but for students and academics looking for a quick rough fix i can see the benefit
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