Operator Input Forms (Mathematica Tutorial)

Characters that are not letters, letter-like forms, or structural elements are treated by Mathematica as operators. Mathematica has built-in rules for interpreting all ...

SessionTime (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SessionTime[] gives the total number of seconds of real time that have elapsed since the beginning of your Mathematica session.

$TimeUnit (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$TimeUnit gives the minimum time interval in seconds recorded on your computer system.

Legacy (Parallel Package Tutorial)

The parallel computing features of Mathematica entirely replace the Parallel Computing Toolkit that was available up to Mathematica Version 6. As stated in the Introduction, ...

ButtonSource (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ButtonSource is an option for the low-level function ButtonBox that specifies the first argument to give to the ButtonFunction for the button when the button is active and is ...

PrintAction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

PrintAction is an option for notebooks that specifies the action taken when a Print[] command is evaluated by the kernel.

Switch (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Switch[expr, form_1, value_1, form_2, value_2, ...] evaluates expr, then compares it with each of the form_i in turn, evaluating and returning the value_i corresponding to ...

RegionPlot3D (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

RegionPlot3D[pred, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, y_max}, {z, z_min, z_max}] makes a plot showing the three-dimensional region in which pred is True.

ContourPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ContourPlot[f, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, y_max}] generates a contour plot of f as a function of x and y. ContourPlot[f == g, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, y_max}] plots ...

Working with MathML (XML Package Tutorial)

MathML is an XML-based markup language for representing mathematics. It was developed by the W3C to provide an effective way to display math in web pages and facilitate the ...