Pseudorandom Numbers (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica has three functions for generating pseudorandom numbers that are distributed uniformly over a range of values. Pseudorandom number generation. Generating tables ...

Special Functions (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica includes all the common special functions of mathematical physics found in standard handbooks. Each of the various classes of functions is discussed in turn. One ...

String Patterns (Mathematica Tutorial)

An important feature of string manipulation functions like StringReplace is that they handle not only literal strings but also patterns for collections of strings. This ...

Nonlinear Conjugate Gradient Methods (Mathematica Tutorial)

The basis for a nonlinear conjugate gradient method is to effectively apply the linear conjugate gradient method, where the residual is replaced by the gradient. A model ...

Create a User Interface Using .NET/Link (NETLink How To)

.NET/Link lets you write sophisticated user interfaces by calling .NET types directly from Mathematica. Doing so allows you to evaluate code as you add it, either one or ...

Variational Methods (Variational Methods Package Tutorial)

The basic problem of the calculus of variations is to determine the function u(x) that extremizes a functional F=∫_SubscriptBox[x^StyleBox[min, FontSlant -> Italic], ...

ListPolarPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ListPolarPlot[{r_1, r_2, ...}] plots points equally spaced in angle at radii r_i.ListPolarPlot[{{\[Theta]_1, r_1}, {\[Theta]_2, r_2}, ...}] plots points at polar coordinates ...

TransferFunctionModel (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

TransferFunctionModel[m, var] represents the model of the transfer-function matrix m with complex variable var.TransferFunctionModel[{num, den}, var] specifies the numerator ...

Exact Global Optimization (Mathematica Tutorial)

Exact global optimization problems can be solved exactly using Minimize and Maximize. This computes the radius of the circle, centered at the origin, circumscribed about the ...

Letters and Letter-like Forms (Mathematica Tutorial)

The complete collection of Greek letters in Mathematica. You can use Greek letters as the names of symbols. The only Greek letter with a built-in meaning in StandardForm is ...