Four underlying types of numbers are built into Mathematica. Intrinsic types of numbers in Mathematica. Rational numbers always consist of a ratio of two integers, reduced to ...

Mathematica provides a powerful and unique environment for parallel computing. Much of the functionality can be used with a minimum of effort and without paying too much ...

From overall layout to details of particular features, Mathematica allows broad manual and programmatic control of the appearance of charts —fully integrated with its ...

Automatically selecting between hundreds of powerful and in many cases original algorithms, Mathematica provides both numerical and symbolic solving of differential equations ...

Version 7.0 introduces built-in zero-configuration parallel computing. Taking full advantage of Mathematica's unique symbolic architecture, Version 7.0 provides an ...

Building on Mathematica's unique base of visualization and graphics capabilities, Mathematica 7 adds several important new areas. Emphasizing integration and automation, ...

One of the unique strengths of Mathematica's core language is its powerful and succinct—yet highly readable—symbolic pattern language. Convenient both for immediate use in ...

OpenRead["file"] opens a file to read data from, and returns an InputStream object.

The raw SQL command UPDATE updates data in a database. An alternative is to use the Mathematica command SQLUpdate, described in "Updating Data". If you find that the examples ...

Modules in Mathematica allow you to treat the names of variables as local. Sometimes, however, you want the names to be global, but values to be local. You can do this in ...