We’re always excited to see new books that explore new ways to use Wolfram technologies. Authors continue to find inventive ways to think with the Wolfram Language. A variety of new Wolfram technology books have been published over the past few months. We hope that you’ll find something on this list to support your new year’s resolution to upgrade your skills. (Update: also look for the newly released Chinese translation of Stephen Wolfram’s An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language.)

Toolbox for the Mathematica Programmers

This new guide from Viktor Aladjev and V. A. Vaganov outlines a modular approach to programming with the Wolfram Language. Providing over 800 tools that can be incorporated into a variety of projects, Toolbox for the Mathematica Programmers will be useful for students and seasoned programmers alike.

Option Valuation under Stochastic Volatility II: With Mathematica Code

In this second volume of his series about quantitative finance, Alan L. Lewis’s Option Valuation under Stochastic Volatility II: With Mathematica Code expands his original focus to include jump diffusions. The finance industry is increasingly relying on computational analysis to model risk and track customer data. Lewis’s volume is a welcome addition to the literature of the field, of interest for both researchers and investors/traders looking to learn more about computational thinking. Topics covered include spectral theory for jump diffusions, boundary behavior for short-term interest rate models, modeling VIX options, inference theory and discrete dividends.

CRC Standard Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica

The third edition of the popular CRC Standard Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica is an indispensable reference text for anyone who works with curves and surfaces, from engineers to graphic designers. With new illustrations in almost every chapter, the updated version contains nearly 1,000 visualizations, depicting nearly every geometrical figure used today. It also includes a CD with a series of interactive Computable Document Format (CDF) files.

Butterworth & Bessel Filters

T. D. McGlone provides a useful introduction to Butterworth and Bessel (aka Thomson) filter functions. With an overview of mathematical functions, topology choices and component selection based on sensitivity criteria, Butterworth & Bessel Filters will be particularly useful for engineers.

Automation of Finite Element Methods

Another text for engineers, Automation of Finite Element Methods provides an introduction to developing virtual prediction techniques. New finite elements need to be created for individual purposes, which can be time-consuming. Authors Jože Korelc and Peter Wriggers outline an approach to automating this process through Wolfram Language programming.

Computational Proximity: Excursions in the Topology of Digital Images

Based on James F. Peters’s popular graduate course on the topology of digital images, Computational Proximity: Excursions in the Topology of Digital Images introduces the concept of computational proximity as an algorithmic approach to finding nonempty sets of points that are either close to each other or far apart. Peters discusses the applications of this concept in computer vision, multimedia, brain activity, biology, social networks and cosmology.

Now available as well is the Chinese translation of Stephen Wolfram’s An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language: Wolfram 语言入门. The translated edition includes all of the material that made the English edition popular with anyone wanting to learn to program in the Wolfram Language. Look out for translations into additional languages in the future!