Heavy maths with Mathematica on Pocket PC

[drkirkby]

If you use Mathematica (http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html) then you might like to know it is now possible to use it on your Pocket PC, by using WITM
http://witm.sourceforge.net/ (http://witm.sourceforge.net/)
Here you can see some screenshots

http://witm.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php

The Mathematica program actually runs on a UNIX/Linux server, but is accessed with a browser. You need

1) Mathematica (UNIX or Linux)

2) Unix or Linux server.

3) Server must have a web server (Apache suggested) with support for PHP server side scripts.

4) WITM (web interface to Mathematica)
WITM (http://witm.sourceforge.net/)

5) A network connection between the pocket PC and the UNIX/Linux server. I have used WiFi and it works well.

[Guest979]

Hmm, interesting. I've been using the TI calculator emulator on my iPaq for occasional-but-advanced needs, although I'm sure Mathematica is more powerful.

*Of course, we trust that people who use the emulator will contact Texas Instruments and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase all rights to their calculators' firmware and source code, rather than using any other method. ;)

[drkirkby]

There are a couple of license issues with WITM too.

1)Technically it *could* be used to allow Mathematica to be used by anyone on the internet. That is not allowed and would I'm sure be acted on very quickly.

2) Technically a Linux license (which costs a lot, but not as much as a UNIX one) could allow access via a UNIX box (Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, tru64 etc). That's no allowed, as the license considers UNIX in a 'higher class' and so UNIX Licenses are more expensive than Windows or Linux.
But there is nothing in the license to outlaw use from a PDA. :lol: