Depending on the purpose for which you are using a Mathematica notebook, you may want to change its overall appearance. The front end allows you to specify independently the ...

Principles of Evaluation Reducing Expressions to Their Standard Form Attributes

Reading and Writing Mathematica Files External Programs Streams and Low-Level Input and Output

Entering Greek Letters Entering Two-Dimensional Input Editing and Evaluating Two-Dimensional Expressions

Constructing Matrices Getting and Setting Pieces of Matrices Scalars, Vectors, and Matrices

Making Lists of Objects Collecting Objects Together Making Tables of Values

Equations Solving Equations The Representation of Equations and Solutions

Cells as Mathematica Expressions Notebooks as Mathematica Expressions Manipulating Notebooks from the Kernel

Modules and Local Variables Local Constants How Modules Work

Mathematical functions in Mathematica are given names according to definite rules. As with most Mathematica functions, the names are usually complete English words, fully ...