Finding the structure of polynomials written in expanded form. Here is a polynomial in two variables. This is the polynomial in expanded form.

Functions like Factor usually assume that all coefficients in the polynomials they produce must involve only rational numbers. But by setting the option Extension you can ...

When you give a list of equations to Solve, it assumes that you want all the equations to be satisfied simultaneously. It is also possible to give Solve more complicated ...

Mathematica includes a very large collection of mathematical functions. "Mathematical Functions" gives the complete list. Here are a few of the common ones. Some common ...

The CompilationTarget option of Compile specifies the target runtime system for the compiled function. The default setting is "MVM", which creates code for the traditional ...

As of Version 8, much of the functionality covered by Combinatorica has been implemented in the Mathematica kernel. BooleanAlgebra CodeToLabeledTree HasseDiagram ...

Graphics3D[primitives, options] represents a three-dimensional graphical image.

ListLinePlot[{y_1, y_2, ...}] plots a line through a list of values, assumed to correspond to x coordinates 1, 2, .... ListLinePlot[{{x_1, y_1}, {x_2, y_2}, ...}] plots a ...

ParameterMixtureDistribution[dist[\[Theta]], \[Theta] \[Distributed] wdist] represents a parameter mixture distribution where the parameter \[Theta] is distributed according ...

StableDistribution[type, \[Alpha], \[Beta], \[Mu], \[Sigma]] represents the stable distribution S_type with index of stability \[Alpha], skewness parameter \[Beta], location ...