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Review title: Well written intro to the Mathematica product
Product review: This book is a good high-level introduction to Mathematica's major built-in capabilities. If you read this book you'll get a good idea of what Mathematica can do without much programming. Of course you can write programs in Mathematica, too, but this book only gives a brief discussion of that. This book also doesn't go into the rigorous details of Mathematica's evaluation mechanism (term rewriting). This book is certainly not a very thorough reference for writing computer algebra algorithms in Mathematica. Luckily, there are other books out there to round out your Mathematica knowledge, if you need them: look for the books by Trott, Shifrin, and Mangano.
