Tan (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Tan[z] gives the tangent of z.

Special Functions (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica includes all the common special functions of mathematical physics found in standard handbooks. Each of the various classes of functions is discussed in turn. One ...

SymplecticPartitionedRungeKutta Method ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

When numerically solving Hamiltonian dynamical systems it is advantageous if the numerical method yields a symplectic map. If the Hamiltonian can be written in separable ...

Line Search Methods (Mathematica Tutorial)

A method like "Newton's" method chooses a step, but the validity of that step only goes as far as the Newton quadratic model for the function really reflects the function. ...

ChiSquareDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ChiSquareDistribution[\[Nu]] represents a \[Chi]^2 distribution with \[Nu] degrees of freedom.

EllipticE (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

EllipticE[m] gives the complete elliptic integral E(m). EllipticE[\[Phi], m] gives the elliptic integral of the second kind E(\[Phi] \[VerticalSeparator] m).

Alphabetical Listing (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica has over 3000 built-in functions and other objects, all based on a single unified framework, and all carefully designed to work together, both in simple ...

Some Notes on Internal Implementation (Mathematica Tutorial)

General issues about the internal implementation of Mathematica are discussed in "The Internals of Mathematica". Given here are brief notes on particular features. These ...

LogitModelFit (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

LogitModelFit[{y_1, y_2, ...}, {f_1, f_2, ...}, x] constructs a binomial logistic regression model of the form 1/(1 + E -(\[Beta]_0 + \[Beta]_1 f_1 + \[Beta]_2 f_2 + \ ...)) ...

MaxStableDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

MaxStableDistribution[\[Mu], \[Sigma], \[Xi]] represents a generalized maximum extreme value distribution with location parameter \[Mu], scale parameter \[Sigma], and shape ...