Building on Mathematica 5.0's dramatic speed, scope, and scalability improvements, Mathematica 5.1 adds a host of new capabilities, especially for working with large-scale, diverse types of data.

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Topics

Industrial Strength String Manipulation
Built-in Universal Database Connectivity
Highly Optimized Binary Data
Additional Import/Export Formats Including XLS and AVI
Integrated Web whatisnew51more.htmlServices Support
Large-Scale Graph Layout
Array Plotting
Numerical Linear Algebra Performance Enhancements
Fully Integrated Piecewise Functions
Integration over Implicitly Defined Regions
Event Handling in Differential Equations
New Algorithms for Symbolic Differential Equations
Cluster Analysis Capabilities Added
EquationTrekker: An Interactive Exploration Tool for Differential Equations
MathematicaMark2004: Benchmarking
GUIKit