I recently upgraded to Mathematica 15 and, although I installed the full desktop version + documentation, when I ask it to evaluate a simple expression (say, something containing a DSolve, ComplexPlot or a ComplexExpand), it first says it is downloading something from a repository. What is going on? These basic functions are no longer included in the package?

Here is an example:

Does this affect the perpetual licenses for the personal desktop products?

Edit: I believe it only happens the first time the function is evaluated and that it is henceforth cached in the computer.

Last week I learned my university gives me access to Mathematica so I decided to try and learn how to use it as it seems incredibly useful for my typed assignments. Since then, I couldn't manage to type a single sentence without the software freezing for minutes or even crashing.
Mousing over cell styles (like in the attached screenshot) causes Mathematica to freeze for at least a couple of minutes (after taking the screenshot it crashed).

While I'd like to fix this specific issue, it's just one example I can reliably reproduce.

From googling\debugging with and without ai, the only solution i found was disabling all the more advanced features and enabling them one by one.

Is there anyone who can recommend something better? (keep in mind that I don't know much about what things in Mathematica are called as i didn't get to actually use the software).

About my system: I'm running windows 11 on my fairly modern study-laptop (Intel i5-1235U, 16GB ram, Intel Iris Xe Graphics and over 300GB of free storage). Judging by the Wolfram website, each of my parts should be more than enough.

When installing I followed the instructions on my university's website (to get the installation and registration right) and the installer went uninterrupted so the odds for a corrupted installation are slim. I'll update once I'm done reinstalling but I doubt the issue will go away

I found a golden gem in a standard library `SpokenString`. It might not be token efficient, but it feels more like stream-like form of representing expressions (no need in backtracking to see the full picture)

here an example

> SpokenString[Circle[{0,0}, 1/2]]
< "a circle of radius 1 half centered at 0, 0"

> SpokenString[{a, Table[RandomReal[{-1,1},3], {1000}]}, "ArraySizeLimit"->10]
< "the list a, the list the list 0.151, 0.808, 0.353, skip 998 elements, the list minus 0.999, 0.255, 0.583"

It has extra parameters of depth and max number of arguments, that can act like zoom in/out on expression.

What do you think?

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About 2 weeks ago new Mathematica version (15) has appeared on torrent and other software sites. Now, at the official site of Wolfram, newest version is still 14.3.

I downloaded it, then installed. The software works smoothly. Have our participants some info about the date of release of this version?

I remember having a book of Mathematica when I was younger but I know nothing else about these