The hierarchy of levels at which options can be set. Here is a notebook containing three cells. This is what happens when the setting CellFrame->True is made specifically for ...

This constructs the sum ∑_(i=1)^7 (x^i)/(i) . You can leave out the lower limit if it is equal to 1. This makes i increase in steps of 2, so that only odd-numbered values are ...

Every version of Mathematica is subjected to a large amount of testing before it is released. The vast majority of this testing is done by an automated system that is written ...

When you make a sequence of definitions in Mathematica, some may be more general than others. Mathematica follows the principle of trying to put more general definitions ...

Power series are represented in Mathematica as SeriesData objects. The power series is printed out as a sum of terms, ending with O[x] raised to a power. Internally, however, ...

"Sound" describes how you can take functions and lists of data and produce sounds from them. Here we discuss how sounds are represented in Mathematica. Mathematica treats ...

Mathematica is one of the more complex software systems ever constructed. It is built from several million lines of source code, written in C/C++, Java and Mathematica. The C ...

Mathematica does operations like numerical integration very differently from the way it does their symbolic counterparts. When you do a symbolic integral, Mathematica takes ...

In three dimensions, just as in two dimensions, you can give various graphics directives to specify how the different elements in a graphics object should be rendered. All ...

Total differentiation operations. When you find the derivative of some expression f with respect to x, you are effectively finding out how fast f changes as you vary x. Often ...