$Inspector is a global variable which gives a function to apply when the inspector is invoked from an interrupt menu.
Lists are widely used in Mathematica, and there are many ways to construct them. Some explicit ways to construct lists. This gives a table of the first five powers of 2.
Hold
(Built-in Mathematica Symbol) Hold[expr] maintains expr in an unevaluated form.
When Mathematica transforms an expression such as x+x into 2x, it is treating the variable x in a purely symbolic or formal fashion. In such cases, x is a symbol which can ...
ReplaceList[expr, rules] attempts to transform the entire expression expr by applying a rule or list of rules in all possible ways, and returns a list of the results ...
lhs :> rhs or lhs :> rhs represents a rule that transforms lhs to rhs, evaluating rhs only after the rule is used.
Options associated with the interactive entering of expressions. The option SingleLetterItalics is typically set whenever a cell uses TraditionalForm. Here is an expression ...
We first encountered lists in "Making Lists of Objects" as a way of collecting numbers together. Here, we shall see many different ways to use lists. You will find that lists ...
Starting in Version 7, Mathematica includes expression-to-speech functionality. In principle, any Mathematica expression can be translated in this way.
DirectoryName["name"] extracts the directory name from the specification for a file.