Calculation Center is a new product from Wolfram Research publishers of the highly regarded mathematical software package Mathematica. Calculation Center is described on the Wolfram Research website as “New software for people too busy with calculations to learn new software”. This is perhaps a rather clumsy way of indicating that it is suitable for the occasional user. More broadly however the aim has been to provide potential users of mathematical software with an easy-to-use scratchpad for doing mathematical calculations and the production of mathematically rich technical reports. In this respect Calculation Center appears to be targeted at the same market as Mathcad. It is pleasing that leading staff at the European office of Wolfram Research located near Oxford have been much involved in the new enterprise with Conrad Wolfram as one of its creators and Jon McLoone a key developer. A pity therefore that US spelling was adopted for the name of the package!
