TimeConstraint is an option for various algorithmic functions which specifies how long to spend trying a particular transformation or part of an algorithm.

Exact symbolic results are usually very desirable when they can be found. In many calculations, however, it is not possible to get symbolic results. In such cases, you must ...

You may have noticed that there are two different ways to make assignments in Mathematica: lhs=rhs and lhs:=rhs. The basic difference between these forms is when the ...

Mathematica is a large and complex software system. Although strongly not supported for production purposes, it is sometimes instructive to "spelunk" in the system, looking ...

While[test, body] evaluates test, then body, repetitively, until test first fails to give True.

Mathematica's symbolic architecture allows it to represent any equation as a symbolic expression that can be manipulated using any of Mathematica's powerful collection of ...

When Mathematica transforms an expression such as x+x into 2x, it is treating the variable x in a purely symbolic or formal fashion. In such cases, x is a symbol which can ...

The flexibility of Mathematica's symbolic architecture is reflected in its rich collection of carefully defined constructs for localization and modularization. The use of ...

Expressions corresponding to notebooks. Here is a simple Mathematica notebook. Here is the expression that corresponds to this notebook.

Built on powerful and elegant principles, the core Mathematica language has emerged over the past 20 years as perhaps the world's richest and deepest programming language. ...