The names of built-in functions follow some general guidelines. The main expression or object on which a built-in function acts is usually given as the first argument to the ...

Mathematica provides high-performance reading and writing of binary data, to both files and pipes. A convenient symbolic format representation makes it straightforward to ...

LinkReadyQ[link] tests whether there is an expression ready to read from the specified MathLink connection. LinkReadyQ[link, t] waits for up to t seconds to see if an ...

EvaluationMonitor is an option for various numerical computation and plotting functions that gives an expression to evaluate whenever functions derived from the input are ...

$JavaExceptionHandler allows you to control how exceptions thrown in Java are handled in Mathematica.

KeepJavaObject[object] causes the specified object or objects not to be released when the current JavaBlock ends. KeepJavaObject[object, Manual] causes the specified object ...

PartitionLattice[n] returns a Hasse diagram of the partially ordered set on set partitions of 1 through n in which p < q if q is finer than p, that is, each block in q is ...

patt /; test is a pattern which matches only if the evaluation of test yields True. lhs :> rhs /; test represents a rule which applies only if the evaluation of test yields ...

ContinuedFractionK[f, g, {i, i_min, i_max}] represents the continued fraction \[CapitalKappa]_i = i_min^i_max f/g.ContinuedFractionK[g, {i, i_min, i_max}] represents the ...

MaxStepSize is an option to functions like NDSolve that specifies the maximum size of a single step used in generating a result.