General Mathematica patterns provide a powerful way to do string manipulation. But particularly if you are familiar with specialized string manipulation languages, you may ...

CellEventActions is an option for Cell that gives a list of actions to perform when specified events occur in connection with a cell in a notebook.

AiryBiPrime[z] gives the derivative of the Airy function Bi^\[Prime] (z).

A core activity in exploratory experimental mathematics is recognition of numbers: going backward from a number to find out how it can be generated. Mathematica provides ...

StyleMenuListing is an option for cells that specifies whether a given cell style is listed in the Format \[FilledRightTriangle] Style submenu.

Mathematica's symbolic character allows a powerful unification of the notion of conditionals in programming and in mathematics.

Mathematica provides a general mechanism for specifying constraints on patterns. All you need to do is to put /;condition at the end of a pattern to signify that it applies ...

DiscreteTimeModelQ[expr] gives True if expr is a discrete-time StateSpaceModel or TransferFunctionModel object and False otherwise.

Animations can convey much more information than static displays. The built-in Mathematica functions Animate and ListAnimate provide an immediate way to construct animations ...

Mathematica 7 extends its general treatment of lists and matrices by adding a variety of convenient functions, including support for common convolution and structure matrices.