Re: Simulating electrochemical reactions with Mathematica

On 16/8/05 1:54 AM, in article 7JqdnWPmedFMMZ3eRVn-ow@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Nick J."
<nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You make valid points. The only reason I would even think about using a
> black box package like Polarograph is perhaps to do a proof of concept first
> in order to justify purchasing Mathematica.

In the book/package I've actually made comparisons to some black box results
in order to test code.

We have Matlab and MathCAD but
> unfortunately not Mathematica, which doesn't seem to be as popular in the
> USA (at least judging from the PhD's preferences at our company), perhaps
> because of Steve Wolfram's assertions about finite automata shaking down the
> foundations of science. ;-) Seriously though, the modest popularity of
> Mathematica compared to the other big three M's is more likely due Wolfram
> Research not making their package as widely available in low cost student
> versions (students graduate, then recommend that their employers buy the
> package they're already familiar with). Maybe its a different case in
> Australia.

No its much the same in australia (re matlab being more prevalent). My
understanding of the differences is that matlab numerics were superior
(faster) until mathematica v5.0 (and therefore people wanting to confine
themselves to numeric analysis and not needing some of the symbolics and
other stuff that mathematica excels in would have preferred matlab). Since
5.0 mathematica numerics are apparently as good or better than matlab.

>
> Having access to the source code is essential for the kind of customization
> I want to do. Even though I'd rather use Mathematica for its higher level
> view of things and the availability of add-on packages like yours, research
> dollars are in short supply so I'll have to try to make do with LEVMW, even
> though its written in Fortran and its not for beginners.

If the fortran code is supplied perhaps you could port it to matlab??

Cheers

Mike


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