You can manipulate lists of transformation rules in Mathematica just like other symbolic expressions. It is common to assign a name to a rule or set of rules. This assigns ...

Converting between symbols and their names. Here is the symbol x. Its name is a string.

Manipulating global options in the front end. Just like cells and notebooks, the complete Mathematica front end has various options, which you can look at and manipulate from ...

Finding and setting values of symbols. Mathematica effectively stores all definitions you give as lists of transformation rules. When a particular symbol is encountered, the ...

Naming Conventions Generic and Nongeneric Cases Numerical Functions

If you use the notebook front end for Mathematica, then you can enter some of the operations discussed here in special ways. Special and ordinary ways to enter mathematical ...

A Mathematica script is simply a file containing Mathematica commands that you would normally evaluate sequentially in a Mathematica session. Writing a script is useful if ...

Typical command-line options for Mathematica executables. If the Mathematica front end is called with a notebook file as a command-line argument, then this notebook will be ...

Mathieu and related functions. The Mathieu functions MathieuC[a,q,z] and MathieuS[a,q,z] are solutions to the equation y^′′+[a-2qcos(2z)]y0. This equation appears in many ...

The library now fully supports the Unicode character encoding forms UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. Use the following new API functions to put or get Unicode characters to or from ...