Wronskian (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Wronskian[{y_1, y_2, ...}, x] gives the Wronskian determinant for the functions y_1, y_2, ... depending on x.Wronskian[eqn, y, x] gives the Wronskian determinant for the ...

Pseudorandom Numbers (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica has three functions for generating pseudorandom numbers that are distributed uniformly over a range of values. Pseudorandom number generation. Generating tables ...

Advice and Suggested Guidelines (Notation Package Tutorial)

The following are some issues and considerations to be aware of when using the Notation Package and/or designing notations. It is intrinsically difficult to debug something ...

Failure Recovery, Tracing, and Debugging (Parallel Package Tutorial)

A remote kernel in use may fail at any time, due to hardware, network, or software problems. A failure of a remote kernel will be noticed the next time Parallel Computing ...

MathLink Development in C (Mac OS X) (Mathematica Tutorial)

This document describes how to compile and run MathLink programs written in the C language on Mac OS X systems. ("MathLink and External Program Communication" describes how ...

Algebraic Numbers (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica's symbolic character allows it to provide deep integrated support for algebraic numbers. At the core are Root objects, which provide exact implicit ...

Functions Used in Quantum Mechanics (Mathematica Guide)

Graphics Shape & Size (Mathematica Guide)

Of particular importance in handling high-throughput programmatic graphics are Mathematica's sophisticated mechanisms for controlling graphics size and shape—allowing ...

New in 6.0: Matrix & Linear Algebra ... (Mathematica Guide)

Version 6.0 continued Mathematica's commitment to delivering the latest and most efficient algorithms for linear algebra, generalized to arbitrary precision and with full ...

FindLibrary (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindLibrary[lib] finds a dynamic library that can be loaded by LibraryFunctionLoad.