Subject: Re: [MATHEDCC] square root of -1 history
From: Nic LaHue (LaHue@pennvalley.cc.mo.us)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2000 - 11:11:59 EST
Martha,
1. Hmm, i'll see what i can find.
2. Price and knowing who is using the software are probably the biggest deal. Do any of the companies have a site license that would work for all of the MCC schools? We scratched up some money last year and purchased copies of mathematica for our lab here at Penn Valley. A note of caution, dealing with the mathematica representatives was about like haggling for a car. The price started at some rediculous value, (like $4000 a year for three years), and i think we ended up paying something like $2900 for a 30 user license that was a one-time fee, not a yearly payment. Well, anyway you go about be ready to haggle regarding the price.
Nic
Nic LaHue
Mathematics Department
Penn Valley Community College
3201 Southwest Trafficway
Kansas City, MO 64111
>>> "Martha Haehl" <haehl@kcmetro.cc.mo.us> 01/21 4:54 PM >>>
Hi all,
I have 2 questions.
1. Does anyone know what mathematicians first studied the square root of -1
and when it was first called an imaginary number?
2. We are considering buying Mathematica, Maple, or Matlab. What do you
see as the pros and cons of each program?
Martha
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