April and Mathematics Awareness Month will soon be coming to an end, and so will these special offers on Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha. As I mentioned in my last post, this year’s Mathematics Awareness Month explores “the Future of Prediction” via mathematics and statistics. Ever since the earliest recognition of mathematics, people have used it to make accurate predictions not only in math but also in related fields.

For almost seven years now, millions of people have used the computational powers of Wolfram|Alpha to check their own predictions and explore fascinating topics in math, science, history, linguistics, culture, the arts, and more. Take Brian A. Carr from Jackson, Wyoming, for example. He is a classical scholar and career firefighter with Jackson Hole Fire/EMS. Carr uses Wolfram|Alpha for a variety of interests, “from helping to explain geometrical and mathematical concepts related to my study of early Greek mathematics to investigating the physics of room-and-contents fires.”

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