Virtual Shared Memory (Parallel Package Tutorial)

Special-purpose multiprocessing hardware comes in two types, shared memory and distributed memory. In a shared-memory machine, all processors have access to a common main ...

Complex Patterns and Advanced Features (Notation Package Tutorial)

Due to the complex inner workings of the Notation Package it is helpful to outline some of the more advanced features and structures of the Mathematica front end and how they ...

Quaternions Package (Quaternions Package Tutorial)

This package implements Hamilton's quaternion algebra. Quaternions have the form a+bi+cj+dk where a, b, c, and d are real numbers. The symbols i, j, and k are multiplied ...

LineIntegralConvolutionPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

LineIntegralConvolutionPlot[{{v_x, v_y}, image}, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, y_max}] generates a line integral convolution plot of image convolved with the vector field ...

WordData (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

WordData["word", " property"] gives the specified property for the English word " word".WordData["word"] gives a list of full word specifications representing possible uses ...

Specifying Derivatives (Mathematica Tutorial)

The function FindRoot has a Jacobian option; the functions FindMinimum, FindMaximum, and FindFit have a Gradient option; and the "Newton" method has a method option Hessian. ...

Getting Started (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

This tutorial contains simple examples of DatabaseLink that give an overview of its functionality and some ideas of how to get started. It uses a lightweight database, ...

Table Structure (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

This section discusses commands that get information about database tables. If you find that the examples in this section do not work as shown, you may need to install or ...

Calling Java from Mathematica (JLink Tutorial)

J/Link provides Mathematica users with the ability to interact with arbitrary Java classes directly from Mathematica. You can create objects and call methods directly in the ...

Compiled Function Operation (Compiled Function Tools Tutorial)

The Mathematica compiler generates a CompiledFunction expression that contains a sequence of simple instructions for evaluating a Mathematica computation. The compiled ...