Is Mathematica mainly for doing math?
A3. Not really–at least not the way most people think of math. Mathematica is widely used by mathematicians, but mathematicians make up only a few percent of all the users of Mathematica. Probably 80% of the users of Mathematica are doing some kind of quantitative work and are making use of math in some way or another. But very few of them would describe what they’re doing as “doing math.” (The other 20% of Mathematica users are doing a huge assortment of things: creating graphics, prototyping computer systems, generating interactive documents, etc.).
