Character Codes (Mathematica Tutorial)

Converting to and from character codes. Mathematica assigns every character that can appear in a string a unique character code. This code is used internally as a way to ...

Numerical Nonlinear Global Optimization (Mathematica Tutorial)

Numerical algorithms for constrained nonlinear optimization can be broadly categorized into gradient-based methods and direct search methods. Gradient-based methods use first ...

Monitoring MathLM (Mathematica Tutorial)

MonitorLM gives information on the total number of licenses available and checked out, the fully qualified domain name and username of those who have them checked out, and so ...

ColorData (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ColorData["scheme"] gives a function that generates colors in the named color scheme when applied to parameter values. ColorData["scheme", " property"] gives the specified ...

EmpiricalDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

EmpiricalDistribution[{x_1, x_2, ...}] represents an empirical distribution based on the data values x_i.EmpiricalDistribution[{{x_1, y_1, ...}, {x_2, y_2, ...}, ...}] ...

FindMinimum (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindMinimum[f, x] searches for a local minimum in f, starting from an automatically selected point.FindMinimum[f, {x, x_0}] searches for a local minimum in f, starting from ...

KolmogorovSmirnovTest (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

KolmogorovSmirnovTest[data] tests whether data is normally distributed using the Kolmogorov\[Dash]Smirnov test.KolmogorovSmirnovTest[data, dist] tests whether data is ...

Minimize (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Minimize[f, x] minimizes f with respect to x.Minimize[f, {x, y, ...}] minimizes f with respect to x, y, .... Minimize[{f, cons}, {x, y, ...}] minimizes f subject to the ...

PolarPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

PolarPlot[r, {\[Theta], \[Theta]_min, \[Theta]_max}] generates a polar plot of a curve with radius r as a function of angle \[Theta].PolarPlot[{f_1, f_2, ...}, {\[Theta], ...

Elliptic Integrals and Elliptic ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

Even more so than for other special functions, you need to be very careful about the arguments you give to elliptic integrals and elliptic functions. There are several ...