Review of Scientific Workplace v4.0 - a mathematical tool reaches maturity

Scientific WorkPlace (SWP), Scientific Word (SW), Scientific Notebook (SN) and Scientific Viewer (SV) form a family of products for creating and reading mathematical documents. If you substitute the word ‘Mathematical’ for ‘Scientific’ in the product names you will immediately have a clearer idea about what they do. MacKichan Software may justify the names on the grounds that there are tools for converting physical units and menus of physical constants, but I can’t imagine a non-mathematical scientist using the products. …Scientific Workplace v4 is part of a family of packages for creating and reading mathematical documents. The reviewer shows: synodic period of an exterior planet, customisable toolbars, sample questions with random parameter, continuous hypergeometic probability density...