Representing XML in Mathematica (XML Package Tutorial)

Mathematica includes comprehensive support for XML, the meta-markup language developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for describing structured documents and data. ...

RotationMatrix (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

RotationMatrix[\[Theta]] gives the 2D rotation matrix that rotates 2D vectors counterclockwise by \[Theta] radians.RotationMatrix[\[Theta], w] gives the 3D rotation matrix ...

CountryData (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

CountryData["tag", " property"] gives the value of the specified property for the country, country-like entity, or group of countries specified by " tag".CountryData["tag", ...

TeleportProbability (Graph Utilities Package Symbol)

TeleportProbability is an option to PageRanks, PageRankVector, LinkRanks, and LinkRankMatrix that specifies the probability that an internet user may choose to visit a vertex ...

Concurrency: Managing Parallel Processes (Parallel Package Tutorial)

A process is simply a Mathematica expression being evaluated. A processor is a parallel kernel that performs such evaluations. The command ParallelEvaluate discussed in the ...

Parallel Evaluation (Parallel Package Tutorial)

Recall that connections to remote kernels, as opened by LaunchKernels, are represented as kernel objects. See the chapter Connection Methods for details. The commands in this ...

Scan (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Scan[f, expr] evaluates f applied to each element of expr in turn. Scan[f, expr, levelspec] applies f to parts of expr specified by levelspec.

IDA Method for NDSolve (Mathematica Tutorial)

The IDA package is part of the SUNDIALS (SUite of Nonlinear and DIfferential/ALgebraic equation Solvers) developed at the Center for Applied Scientific Computing of Lawrence ...

Histogram (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Histogram[{x_1, x_2, ...}] plots a histogram of the values x_i.Histogram[{x_1, x_2, ...}, bspec] plots a histogram with bin width specification bspec.Histogram[{x_1, x_2, ...

Activating Mathematica (Mathematica Tutorial)

Once the installation of Mathematica 8 is complete, you will be presented with the Wolfram Product Activation dialog. There are three methods to activate Mathematica: online ...