From overall layout to details of particular features, Mathematica allows broad manual and programmatic control of the appearance of charts —fully integrated with its ...

One of the key problems in graphs is navigation. In particular, the problem is finding the shortest path between two vertices, whether that is finding the way out of a maze ...

GroupOrder[group] returns the number of elements of group.

PrivateEvaluationOptions -> {opt_1 -> val_1, opt_2 -> val_2} is an option for selections that specifies settings for evaluation-related suboptions.

Mathematica usually keeps the elements of a list in exactly the order you originally entered them. If you want to treat a Mathematica list like a mathematical set, however, ...

Mathematica 's rich syntax uses different kinds of brackets and braces; familiarity with these aspects lets you read and program efficiently in Mathematica .

FindList["file", " text"] gives a list of lines in the file that contain the specified string. FindList["file", {"text_1", "text_2", ...}] gives a list of all lines that ...

GroupElementPosition[group, g] returns the position of the element g in the list of elements of group.GroupElementPosition[group, {g_1, ..., g_n}] returns the list of ...

PlotMarkers is an option for graphics functions like ListPlot and ListLinePlot that specifies what markers to draw at the points plotted.

DSolve can find solutions for most of the standard linear second-order ODEs that occur in applied mathematics. Here is the solution for Airy's equation. Here is a plot that ...