Making Definitions (Mathematica Tutorial)

The replacement operator /. allows you to apply transformation rules to a specific expression. Often, however, you want to have transformation rules automatically applied ...

SetSharedVariable (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SetSharedVariable[s_1, s_2, ...] declares the symbols s_i as shared variables whose values are synchronized among all parallel kernels.

VertexEccentricity (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

VertexEccentricity[g, s] gives the length of the longest shortest path from the source s to every other vertex in the graph g.

Amazon Web Services Example (WebServices Tutorial)

Amazon.com is a well-known web retailer that specializes in books, music, movies, and many other products. Amazon has made a web service available that allows developers to ...

Set (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

lhs = rhs evaluates rhs and assigns the result to be the value of lhs. From then on, lhs is replaced by rhs whenever it appears. {l_1, l_2, ...} = {r_1, r_2, ...} evaluates ...

Miscellaneous`Dictionary` (Mathematica Compatibility Information)

New function WordData has been added to the built-in Mathematica kernel. New function DictionaryLookup has been added to the built-in Mathematica kernel.

BarabasiAlbertGraphDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

BarabasiAlbertGraphDistribution[n, k] represents a Barabasi\[Dash]Albert graph distribution for n-vertex graphs where a new vertex with k edges is added at each step.

NHoldAll (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

NHoldAll is an attribute which specifies that none of the arguments to a function should be affected by N.

WeierstrassZeta (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

WeierstrassZeta[u, {g_2, g_3}] gives the Weierstrass zeta function \[Zeta](u; g_2, g_3).

Automatic Loading of Import/Export ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

In addition to the interfaces of Import and Export, Mathematica 8 comes with an autoloading mechanism that simplifies the registration of formats used by the Import and ...