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Re: @Josh, regarding mathematical knowledge

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Hmm... Quantify Stephen Wolfram's ego, divide by the number of site licenses sold, and... Oh dear, my calculator seems to have collapsed under the weight of Wolfram's sense of smug self-satisfaction.

Thankfully, due to the magic of site licensing, we didn't have to buy our own copies. Maple, on the other hand...
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Re: @Josh, regarding mathematical knowledge

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Dinosawer wrote::lol: Well, it's economical recession so our university doesn't have money for that kind of expenses...
Also, our professors think that if we want to calculate something complicated, we should program it in python. (I agree with that) ;)
Assuming you're talking about wolfram mathematica...

Check Athena Dinosawer, it has wolfram mathematica 10

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Dinosawer wrote:Also, our professors think that if we want to calculate something complicated, we should program it in python. (I agree with that) ;)
Real physicists use Fortran. *cough*
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Re: @Josh, regarding mathematical knowledge

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Dinosawer wrote: Hold on, they have the budget for a mathematica license that we don't use but not for paying professors? :evil:
:/

I don't even know if half of the apps on Athena is used, only things I've used is something to draw molecules (chembiodraw) and microsoft office.
The only non-free application I've ever used is....um...some kind of crystallography program we used 1 practice lesson? All the rest was free :ghost:
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Dinosawer wrote:Also, our professors think that if we want to calculate something complicated, we should program it in python. (I agree with that) ;)
Real physicists use Fortran. *cough*
Not anymore :P C++ and Python are all the rage now, which explains why the only programming language we officially learn (as opposed to having to figure it out on ourselves) is Java.
Wait. :eh:

(I have already compiled a Fortran program, does that count?)
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Re: @Josh, regarding mathematical knowledge

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Dinosawer wrote: Not anymore :P C++ and Python are all the rage now, which explains why the only programming language we officially learn (as opposed to having to figure it out on ourselves) is Java.
Wait. :eh:

(I have already compiled a Fortran program, does that count?)
Yup, Java was the only language I had to learn in undergrad, too. From the comp sci department. We never actually used it. The thing is, though, that in sciences that write their own programs (so... physics, and some branches of engineering), no one ports code. I've worked with profs who still use code they wrote in the 60s and 70s. We're talking research grade code that's written in COBOL and FORTRAN 77. Hell, I had profs that still actively wrote code in FORTRAN 77!

And those languages still have a lot of momentum! I did my masters research using software written in Fortran 90, and so I had to learn Fortran 90 (and 95/2003) in order to modify and extend the code. My supervisor did all of his data visualization in IDL. Because reasons. He put up a bit of a stink when those of us in his research group started doing our visualization in python, because he wouldn't be able to help us if things didn't work!
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