TrustRadius Insights for Wolfram Mathematica are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Versatility: Users have appreciated the versatility of Wolfram Mathematica, with multiple reviewers mentioning its support for various programmatic paradigms such as pure functions, procedural programming, list processing, and even object-oriented programming with a bit of setup.
Graphical Rendering Tools: Reviewers have found the extensive and rich tools for graphical rendering in Wolfram Mathematica to be very helpful. They mentioned that it not only allows for 2D and 3D renderings of final output but also enables quick-and-dirty 2D and 3D rendering of intermediate and debugging results.
AI and KI Data Analysis: Several users consider Wolfram Mathematica to be excellent for solving a wide range of mathematical problems, including PDEs. They highlight its strength in AI and KI data analysis, making it a preferred choice for tackling complex analytical challenges.
Wolfram Mathematica is being used by students and faculty at Virginia Tech. Engineering, Math, and Stat students use it occasionally. It mostly helps students solve some numerical problems very quickly and to get a hunch of the overall solution (if available).
Pros
Computation of integrals and sums in "closed form" (if possible) very quickly, much better than Matlab
For an engineer, it can act as a very good complement to Matlab.
It's very user-friendly.
Cons
I do not see any negative points about Wolfram Mathematica so far! Maybe just improve the readability of the "help" environment, something similar to the strong "help" of Matlab.
Likelihood to Recommend
Wolfram Mathematica is excellent for closed-form solutions of integrals. It has some room for improvement in numerical analysis.
VU
Verified User
Employee in Engineering (Wireless company, 11-50 employees)
I have used Mathematica for doing heavy computation and for data visualisations. Basically, I have used this tool when I was in my college. It is being used by one department of our college who are doing some kind of research. We have used this to do the heavy operation around matrix and visualising the data. We are using this solve a research problem.
Pros
It is a very powerful tool for data visualisation and computation.
Solving mathematics mainly calculus is very easy. Visualising the solution step by step is a great thing you can see in this tool.
It's easy to do heavy computation like finding the inverse of a big matrix, doing matrix multiplications etc.
One of the best features is that it can also understand natural language. So, you can write a query in simple English and it can interpret that and can find a solution for you.
Cons
The first and the biggest con is that it takes a long time to learn this language. Writing a mathematical equation is not so easy in this tool. And its documentation is very big and sometimes I feel that the documentation is confusing.
Pricing for this tool is too high. Not everyone can afford to buy this product and the free trial has lots of limitation.
And I think the last con is that its interpreter is slow.
Likelihood to Recommend
It will be very well suited when you are developing anything around mathematics as it can solve almost everything mathematics from calculus to algebra. Also, visualising data with this tool is very easy and efficient. Now, it also provides the speech and image API, so you can also use this tool while doing something around speech and images like speech to text conversion or finding some information out of images etc.