Configuring the Compilation (C Compiler Driver Package Tutorial)

The CCompilerDriver package lets you work with C compilers that are installed on your computer. It lets you build executables, libraries, and object files from C source code. ...

Computer Arithmetic Package (Computer Arithmetic Package Tutorial)

The arithmetic used by Mathematica is a mixture of variable-precision software arithmetic and whatever is provided by the manufacturer of the floating-point hardware (or the ...

PolyhedronData (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

PolyhedronData[poly, " property"] gives the value of the specified property for the polyhedron named poly.PolyhedronData[poly] gives an image of the polyhedron named ...

Sum (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Sum[f, {i, i_max}] evaluates the sum \[Sum]i = 1 i_max f. Sum[f, {i, i_min, i_max}] starts with i = i_min. Sum[f, {i, i_min, i_max, di}] uses steps d i. Sum[f, {i, {i_1, i_2, ...

Newton's Method (Mathematica Tutorial)

One significant advantage Mathematica provides is that it can symbolically compute derivatives. This means that when you specify Method->"Newton" and the function is ...

Selecting Data (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

SQLSelect selects and returns data from a database. An alternative, using raw SQL, is described in "Selecting Data with Raw SQL". If you find that the examples in this ...

Scoping (GUIKit Package Tutorial)

Widgets created within a user interface definition can be named and registered in an object registry for easy lookup reference by script code and other widgets. Complete ...

Analysis of Variance Package (ANOVA Package Tutorial)

This package provides functions for performing a univariate Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to examine the differences between groups of means. The function ANOVA can handle ...

Fourier Series Package (Fourier Series Package Tutorial)

The Mathematica kernel provides the functions FourierTransform and InverseFourierTransform for computing the symbolic Fourier exponential transform and inverse transform. It ...

Hypothesis Testing Package (Hypothesis Testing Package Tutorial)

This package contains functions for computing confidence intervals from data and p-values and confidence intervals for distributions related to the normal distribution. Given ...