As the basis for many other special functions, Mathematica supports efficient arbitrary-precision evaluation of gamma functions, as well as an extensive web of relations and ...

Mathematica supports hyperbolic functions everywhere in the complex plane—with careful attention to branch cuts—and provides an extensive web of exact and algebraic ...

Mathematica has sophisticated built-in automatic numerical precision and accuracy control. But for special-purpose optimization of numerical computations, or for studying ...

NotebookInformation[] gives a list of properties of the current evaluation notebook.NotebookInformation[notebook] gives a list of properties for the specified notebook.

General issues about the internal implementation of Mathematica are discussed in "The Internals of Mathematica". Given here are brief notes on particular features. These ...

The built-in functions in Mathematica operate in a wide variety of ways. But many of the mathematical functions share an important approach: they are set up so as to reduce ...

BesselJ[n, z] gives the Bessel function of the first kind J_n (z).

This tutorial describes the principles behind Dynamic, DynamicModule, and related functions, and goes into detail about how they interact with each other and with the rest of ...

A process is simply a Mathematica expression being evaluated. A processor is a parallel kernel that performs such evaluations. The command ParallelEvaluate discussed in the ...

HermiteH[n, x] gives the Hermite polynomial H_n (x).