FYI, for those who want to play around a bit with Mathematica, there is now a rather unusual way to do so for free (as far as the software is concerned):
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that Mathematica and the Wolfram Language are from now on free to use on the Raspberry Pi credit-card-size mini computer (which itself costs around 50 bucks (the board, power supply, keyboard, mouse).
Hi there ! I've been considering a purchase of a textbook entitled "Astrophysics Through Computation with Mathematica support (2013) " written by Brian Koberlein & David Meisel. Has anyone here read this book ? Is it worth the rather hefty pricetag ? What I need is a good introduction to using computational methods to model astrophysical properties (mainly mass modelling of galaxies). Any ideas ?
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There is a freeware available, called GeoGebra
http://www.geogebra.org/
It's worth to take a look on it.
Hi there ! I've been
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Hi there ! I've been considering a purchase of a textbook entitled "Astrophysics Through Computation with Mathematica support (2013) " written by Brian Koberlein & David Meisel. Has anyone here read this book ? Is it worth the rather hefty pricetag ? What I need is a good introduction to using computational methods to model astrophysical properties (mainly mass modelling of galaxies). Any ideas ?