Building on its broad strengths in mathematics in general, and in special functions in particular, Mathematica provides a unique level of support for multiplicative number ...

Mathematica 8 adds a number of new areas for visualization, including statistical, financial, wavelet, and control-related visualizations. These areas all provide a high ...

The primes have been a focal point for investigations of numbers for more than two millennia. Mathematica implements state-of-the-art algorithms for handling both primes and ...

CellularAutomaton[rule, init, t] generates a list representing the evolution of the cellular automaton with the specified rule from initial condition init for t steps. ...

MathLink provides a mechanism through which programs can interact with Mathematica. Some typical uses of MathLink. MathLink provides a general interface for external programs ...

Statistical visualization is used to understand how data is distributed and how that compares to other datasets and distributions. Histograms and smooth histograms both ...

These "How tos" give step-by-step instructions for common tasks related to statistics in Mathematica .

Probability[pred, x \[Distributed] dist] gives the probability for an event that satisfies the predicate pred under the assumption that x follows the probability distribution ...

HazardFunction[dist, x] gives the hazard function for the symbolic distribution dist evaluated at x.HazardFunction[dist, {x_1, x_2, ...}] gives the multivariate hazard ...

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