Language Overview (Mathematica Guide)

At the core of Mathematica is its highly developed symbolic language, which unifies a broad range of programming paradigms and uses its unique concept of symbolic programming ...

Functional Iteration (Mathematica Guide)

Long used in its simplest form in mathematics, functional iteration is an elegant way to represent repeated operations. Mathematica's symbolic architecture makes powerful ...

Applying Functions Repeatedly (Mathematica Tutorial)

Many programs you write will involve operations that need to be iterated several times. Nest and NestList are powerful constructs for doing this. Applying functions of one ...

BezierCurve (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

BezierCurve[{pt_1, pt_2, ...}] is a graphics primitive that represents a Bézier curve with control points pt_i.

Image Filtering & Neighborhood ... (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica not only includes highly optimized implementations of standard image processing filters, but also uses its general symbolic architecture to allow arbitrarily ...

Procedural Programming (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica stands out from traditional computer languages in supporting many programming paradigms. Procedural programming is the only paradigm available in languages like C ...

WindowElements (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

WindowElements is a notebook option that specifies the elements to include in the window used to display the notebook on the screen.

Identity (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Identity[expr] gives expr (the identity operation).

Applying Functions to Lists (Mathematica Guide)

Many computations are conveniently specified in terms of applying functions in parallel to many elements in a list. Mathematica provides a suite of elegant functional ...

Defining Variables and Functions (Mathematica Guide)

The symbolic language paradigm of Mathematica takes the concept of variables and functions to a new level. In Mathematica a variable can not only stand for a value, but can ...