Areas of Use for webMathematica
There are several areas of use for web
Mathematica. Some of these include web computation, education, publishing, research, and hobbyist calculations.
Web Computation
A major use of web
Mathematica is to build online tools for computation and visualization. An example is web
Unrisk,
http://library.wolfram.com/explorations/webUnrisk/index.html; some examples of web
Unrisk are shown below.
Education
Mathematica is widely used in many areas of education. These applications can be extended to web-based education tools with web
Mathematica.
The Integrator,
http://integrals.wolfram.com, is a
Wolfram Research-developed website that solves integration problems. Another use of web
Mathematica in education is Calc101,
http://www.calc101.com, which mixes free and pay-per-use calculators that lead precollege and college students through integration and differentiation problems.
Publishing
Many publishers are developing web-based supplements to textbooks, manuals, and journals. web
Mathematica provides a suitable technology to support these efforts in technical subjects. An example web-based supplement, built with web
Mathematica, is available at
http://library.wolfram.com/explorations/explorer/index.html, as shown in the following.
Research
Researchers all over the world use
Mathematica to investigate their fields of interest and develop techniques and algorithms for solving problems. All the
Mathematica work they develop can now be delivered with live interactive websites, vastly increasing the number of people who can use and learn from their results. A typical website that plots surfaces of constant curvature is
http://library.wolfram.com/webMathematica/Mathematics/ConstantCurvature.jsp.
Hobbyist
web
Mathematica allows individual users to showcase their personal interests with web-based interactive calculations and visualizations. AnalyticCycling.com,
http://www.analyticcycling.com/, provides a recreational website that takes advantage of the web
Mathematica engine. Designed for technically oriented cyclists, AnalyticCycling.com offers web-based calculators that take a no-compromise, textbook approach to computing cycling performance.