

I'm hoping the 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS is soon out of beta test. It has been great to read tweets from educators. The responses to this pilot release have been overwhelmingly positive. In partnership with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the Wolfram Language and Mathematica are bundled as part of the standard system software for every Raspberry Pioffering a quick-to-deploy, yet full-power embedded solution. In my opinion Wolfram's Mathematica was one of the most important applications bundled with the NeXT Computer and today fulfills a similar role for the Raspberry Pi. Just this past week, it’s become even easier to get the software since The Raspberry Pi Foundation began bundling Mathematica and the Wolfram Language directly with their standard NOOBS package and Raspbian operating system.

I look forward to using a naive 64 bit mathematica, but realistically I doubt that wolfram would even begin to work on it before 64 bit Raspberry is out of beta.

This book is designed for anyone who wants to get started with. I did not try to follow the gentoo instruction to first install the 32 bit "donor" libraries. You will also learn about the Wolfram language, Mathematica, and Scratch. But when I tried to install that I got lots of error messages about missing 64bit (java/fortran) libraries - as expected. I could not sudo apt search mathematica I did find wolfram-engine. Here is the best link I have for getting started: Does anyone know whether it is possible to install the current 32-bit version of Mathematica on the beta test 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS? Also, is there any news about whether and when Mathematica will be available for the 64-bit OS?
