Review of Mathcad 2001

Mathcad is a Windows program designed to work with formulae, text and graphics. Earlier releases have been described in detail by the reviewer (Mathcad 6 - Maths&Stats Nov 96) and by Duncan Robertson (Mathcad 7 – Maths&Stats Aug 98 and Mathcad 8 – Maths&Stats Aug 99). In this review the main features of Mathcad are therefore only briefly discussed before the changes and enhancements between Mathcad 8 and Mathcad 2001 are described. Currently Mathcad 2001 is available in two forms – Mathcad 2001 Professional and Mathcad 2001 Premium. The difference between the professional edition and the premium edition is that included with the premium edition are several additional programs such as Axum 6, Smartsketch 3.1 and the Mathcad Solving & Optimisation Pack. The latest student edition is Mathcad 8. Student editions contain restrictions on arrays to a maximum of 1000 elements and do not have all the programming capabilities…