Symbol["name"] refers to a symbol with the specified name.

You can ask for information about any object, whether it is built into Mathematica, has been read in from a Mathematica package, or has been introduced by you. Ways to get ...

Mathematica includes many powerful operations for working with lists. It is often desirable to map a function onto each individual element in a list. While listable functions ...

InverseErf[s] gives the inverse error function obtained as the solution for z in s = erf(z).

NumericFunction is an attribute that can be assigned to a symbol f to indicate that f[arg_1, arg_2, ...] should be considered a numeric quantity whenever all the arg_i are ...

Ways to change the overall options for a notebook. This creates a notebook displayed in a 40×30 window with a thin frame. Style options for a notebook.

Building on Mathematica's extensive data manipulation capabilities, Mathematica 8 adds a wide range of new import and export features, advanced image processing algorithms, ...

The complete collection of Greek letters in Mathematica. You can use Greek letters as the names of symbols. The only Greek letter with a built-in meaning in StandardForm is ...

DistributeDefinitions[s_1, s_2, ...] distributes all definitions for the symbols s_i to all parallel kernels.DistributeDefinitions["context"] distributes definitions for all ...

Mathematica not only allows you to create interfaces within its usual notebook framework, but also to create complex standalone interfaces that customize the whole user ...