The standard front end interface, as discussed in "Using a Notebook Interface", is appropriate for most users' purposes. In some cases, however, you may not need to use the ...

Mathematica's highly optimized architecture makes it easy to create programs that are both elegant and efficient. Its symbolic character lets you immediately run and test ...

A typical Mathematica notebook containing text, graphics, and Mathematica expressions. The brackets on the right indicate the extent of each cell. Mathematica notebooks are ...

In any interactive session, Mathematica effectively operates in a loop. It waits for your input, processes the input, prints the result, then goes back to waiting for input ...

Everything that Mathematica does can be thought of as derived from its ability to apply general transformation rules to arbitrary symbolic expressions. The Mathematica ...

ClearAttributes[s, attr] removes attr from the list of attributes of the symbol s.

CurrentValue[item] gives the current value of item at a location in the Mathematica system and interface. CurrentValue[{item, spec}] gives the current value for the feature ...

Traditional procedural programming languages typically require programmers to define an explicit "flow of control" at every stage in their programs. Mathematica provides ...

Mathematica is built to handle arbitrarily large computations—limited only by computer time and memory—and provides a collection of convenient global safety features to ...

Mathematica normally makes as few assumptions as possible about the objects you ask it to manipulate. This means that the results it gives are as general as possible. But ...