2005

• All-platform support for 64-bit addressing
• Multicore support on major platforms
• Multithreaded numerical linear algebra
• 64-bit-enhanced arbitrary-precision numerics
• Vector-based performance enhancements
• Automatic binary installation selection
• Bundled notebook indexing for desktop search
• SSH support for secure remote kernels
• vCard and RSS import
• New algorithms for symbolic differential equations
• Enhanced performance for linear Diophantine systems
• Enhanced quadratic quantifier elimination
• Singular-case support for high-level special functions
• Enhanced statistics charts
• MathematicaMark 5.2 benchmark now covering grids and clusters
• And many more enhancements and innovations...

2004

• Industrial-strength string manipulation
• Built-in universal database connectivity
• Highly optimized binary data I/O
• Additional import-export formats, including XLS and AVI
• Integrated web services support
• 2D and 3D automated network visualization
• High-performance array visualization
• Numerical linear algebra performance enhancements
• Fully integrated piecewise functions
• Integration over implicitly defined regions
• Event handling in numerical differential equations
• New algorithms for symbolic differential equations
• Cluster analysis capabilities added
• Interactive exploration tool for differential equations
• MathematicaMark benchmarking tool
• GUIKit interface and application builder now built in

MATHEMATICA 5.0

2003

• Record-breaking speed through processor-optimized numerical linear algebra
• Full support for fast sparse linear algebra
• New-generation optimized numerical solvers for ordinary and partial differential equations
• Major new algorithms for solving equations and inequalities symbolically over different domains
• Fully integrated solver for differential algebraic equations
• High-performance optimization and linear programming, including interior point method
• More generalized numeric solvers that now accept vector and general array variables
• Industry-leading solver for recurrence equations
• Broader support for assumptions in symbolic computation
• Included .NET/Link, providing full integration with Microsoft's .NET Framework
• Flexible import and export of DICOM, PNG, SVG, and sparse matrix formats
• Optimized versions for 64-bit hardware and operating systems
• New quick-start interactive tutorial

MATHEMATICA 4.2

2002

• Transparent Java integration with J/Link 2.0 and built-in Java Runtime Engine
• Improved linear programming and optimization
• Speed and robustness improvements for many numerical functions
• Improved simplifier
• Statistics enhancements, including new ANOVA package
• New bundled Combinatorica package for combinatorics and graph theory
• New bundled AuthorTools package for technical publishing
• Slide show environment for presentations
• New import and export formats including FITS and STDS
• XML extensions that allow Mathematica notebooks and expressions to be stored as XML
• New bundled XML tools package for symbolic XML manipulation
• Support for XHTML export including style sheets
• Extended MathML 2.0 support

MATHEMATICA 4.1

2000

• Macintosh OS X version introduced (Version 4.1.5 in 2001)
• Greatly enhanced symbolic differential equation solvers
• Enhanced Mathematica pattern matcher and compiler, increasing speed and minimizing memory consumption
• New standard package for integration over inequality-defined regions and piecewise functions
• Dramatic speed improvements in statistics functions
• Conversion between linear systems of equations and matrices
• Java integration with J/Link 1.1
• Improved MathML integration on the web
• Support for saving in IBM techexplorer format
• New and faster import and export filters for Excel files, tabular data, and compressed BMP, DXF, and STL
• Support for real-time manipulation of 3D graphics on Linux and Unix platforms
• Sound support under X
• Routines for plotting graphics defined by inequalities
• Support for PowerPC Linux and AlphaLinux
• Discrete trigonometric package
• Enhanced look and feel for the X front end

MATHEMATICA 4.0

1999

• Extensive enhancements in speed and efficiency in numerical calculation
• Publishing documents in a variety of formats
• Spell checking and hyphenation in the notebook interface
• Direct import and export from over 20 standard data, graphics, and sound file formats
• Extended range and improved functions for data analysis including correlation, convolution, and a new Fourier transform algorithm
• Support for handling computations in specified algebraic domains
• Network license management availability on all platforms
• Enhancements to many built-in Mathematica functions

MATHEMATICA 3.0

1996

• Interactive mathematical typesetting system
• Algebraic numbers
• Mathematica compiler extended to work with arrays of machine numbers
• Support for nonlinear least squares with Levenberg-Marquardt technique
• Improved interpolation (important in finding the result of numerical ordinary differential equations)
• Interval arithmetic
• New functions for simplifying and transforming expressions
• Optimized Groebner basis functions
• Many new special functions
• Exception-based programming flow control

MATHEMATICA 2.2

1993

• Windows front end with new notebook commands
• Separate front end on Macintosh
• X front end
• MathLink for Windows
• Linux version
• Isocontour plotting routine added
• Package for symbolic solutions of first-order partial differential equations added
• Ten other packages added in areas such as three-dimensional contour plotting, variational calculus, and music
• New help features, including online manuals on X Windows and a Function Browser on Macintosh and NeXT
• Faster numerical solutions of sparse linear systems of equations
• Symbolic definite integration that now includes tests for nonintegrable singularities and also handles branch cuts in the range of integration