When you have numerical data, it is often convenient to find a simple formula that approximates it. For example, you can try to "fit" a line or curve through the points in ...

The single function Manipulate gives immediate access to a huge range of powerful interactive capabilities. For any expression with symbolic parameters, Manipulate ...

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, ...

Calculus lets you approximate complicated functions with power series. Mathematica lets you generate and work with power series for a huge range of functions.

The Mathematica graphics language has many controls for preparing and laying out plots. Aligning plots is important when preparing graphics for presentation or publication.

ShowContents is an option for selections that specifies whether an object represented by a StyleBox should be displayed on the screen or replaced by blank space.

Complicated algebraic expressions can usually be written in many different ways. Mathematica provides a variety of functions for converting expressions from one form to ...

Protect[s_1, s_2, ...] sets the attribute Protected for the symbols s_i. Protect["form_1", "form_2", ...] protects all symbols whose names match any of the string patterns ...

CompilationOptions is an option for Compile that specifies settings for the compilation process.

This tutorial documents the XML representation of the user interface definition, GUIKitXML for short. This is a DTD representing the current GUIKit XML definitions. Use the ...