Wolfram Mathematica (usually called Mathematica) is a modern technical computing system made by Wolfram Research.
Features
Today, Wolfram Mathematica is used for the following purposes:
Computer science
Data science
Deep learning
Geometry
Interval arithmetic
Machine learning
Numerical analysis
Numerical linear algebra
Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations
Numerical methods for partial differential equations
Neural network
Optimization
This system is made with the Wolfram Language (programming language named after Stephen Wolfram).
Version history
Since 1988, Wolfram Research has released the following versions of Wolfram Mathematica:
1.0 – June 23, 1988
1.1 – October 31, 1988
1.2 – August 1, 1989
2.0 – January 15, 1991
2.1 – June 15, 1992
2.2 – June 1, 1993
3.0 – September 3, 1996
4.0 – May 19, 1999
4.1 – November 2, 2000
4.2 – November 1, 2002
5.0 – June 12, 2003
5.1 – October 25, 2004
5.2 – June 20, 2005
6.0 – May 1, 2007
7.0 – November 18, 2008
8.0 – November 15, 2010
9.0 – November 28, 2012
10.0 – July 9, 2014
10.1 – March 30, 2015
10.2 – July 14, 2015
10.3 – October 15, 2015
10.4 – March 2, 2016
11.0.0 – August 8, 2016
11.0.1 – September 28, 2016
11.1 – March 16, 2017
11.1.1 – April 25, 2017
11.2 – September 14, 2017
11.3 – March 8, 2018
12.0 – April 16, 2019
12.1 - March 18, 2020
References
Other websites
Mathematica Documentation Center
Wolfram Open Cloud limited free access to Mathematica via a web browser
Image identification website powered by Mathematica
Wolfram Demonstrations Project Mathematica based demonstrations
A little bit of Mathematica history documenting the growth of code base and number of functions over time Wolfram Screencast & Video Gallery: Hands-on Start to Mathematica