Non-Standard Evaluation (Mathematica Tutorial)

While most built-in Mathematica functions follow the standard evaluation procedure, some important ones do not. For example, most of the Mathematica functions associated with ...

Operations on Strings (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica provides a variety of functions for manipulating strings. Most of these functions are based on viewing strings as a sequence of characters, and many of the ...

Exp (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Exp[z] gives the exponential of z.

Handling Lists, Arrays, and Other ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

MathLink allows you to exchange data of any type with external programs. For more common types of data, you simply need to give appropriate :ArgumentTypes: or :ReturnType: ...

Input Syntax (Mathematica Tutorial)

Typical ways to enter characters. All printable ASCII characters can be entered directly. Those that are not alphanumeric are assigned explicit names in Mathematica, allowing ...

Polynomial Orderings (Mathematica Tutorial)

The leading term of a polynomial can be chosen in many different ways. For multivariate polynomials, sorting by the total degree of the monomials is often useful. Different ...

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 ...

Options and Auxiliary Functions (Notation Package Tutorial)

Notation , Symbolize and InfixNotation have several options that modify their behavior. These notation functions all take the options WorkingForm and Action. In addition the ...

List (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

{e_1, e_2, ...} is a list of elements.

Basic Examples of Web Services (WebServices Tutorial)

Often a web service requires using data other than a simple string. This data could be something simple like an integer or a real. Often the data is more complex and is a ...