Version History
Mathematica built on the ideas in Cole and Wolfram's earlier Symbolic Manipulation Program (SMP).
Wolfram Research has released the following versions of Mathematica:
- Mathematica 1.0 (June 23, 1988)
- Mathematica 1.1 (1989)
- Mathematica 1.2 (August 1, 1989)
- Mathematica 2.0 (January 15, 1991)
- Mathematica 2.1 (June 15, 1992)
- Mathematica 2.2 (June 1, 1993)
- Mathematica 3.0 (September 3, 1996)
- Mathematica 4.0 (May 19, 1999)
- Mathematica 4.1 (November 2, 2000)
- Mathematica 4.2 (November 1, 2002)
- Mathematica 5.0 (June 12, 2003)
- Mathematica 5.1 (October 25, 2004)
- Mathematica 5.2 (June 20, 2005)
- Mathematica 6.0 (May 1, 2007)
- Mathematica 6.0.1 (July 5, 2007)
- Mathematica 6.0.2 (2008)
- Mathematica 6.0.3 (2008)
- Mathematica 7.0 (November 18, 2008)
- Mathematica 7.0.1 (March 5, 2009)
- Mathematica 8.0 (November 15, 2010)
- Mathematica 8.0.1 (March 7, 2011)
- Mathematica 8.0.4 (October 24, 2011)
The name of the program “Mathematica” was suggested to Stephen Wolfram by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs although Stephen Wolfram had thought about it earlier and rejected it.
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