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Re: What is Mathmatica

• Subject: [mg3222] Re: [mg3193] What is Mathmatica
• From: me at talmanl.mscd.edu (Lou Talman)
• Date: 19 Feb 1996 06:31:43 -0600
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Thomas Bates wrote:

>  if I used the program to learn calculus would I have 

> learned the subject just as well as if I learned it the old  
> fashion way?

That depends upon how you used Mathematica and on what you  
mean by "the old fashion way".  If you used a text such as  
the (electronic text) _Calculus & Mathematica_,
by Davis, Porta, & Uhl (Addison-Wesley), you might even learn  
calculus *better* than if you learned it in a variety of  
old-fashioned ways.

--Lou Talman