Miscellaneous`WorldData` (Mathematica Compatibility Information)

All the functionality in Miscellaneous`WorldData` is now available in the built-in Mathematica kernel function CountryData.

Flow Control (Mathematica Guide)

Traditional procedural programming languages typically require programmers to define an explicit "flow of control" at every stage in their programs. Mathematica provides ...

Presentations with Mathematica (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica's unified computation and dynamic document architecture makes possible a new level of interactive presentation—notably allowing finished "slides" on which full ...

Edit > Complete Selection (Mathematica Menu Item)

Complete Selection completes a partially typed function name.

Continue (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Continue[] exits to the nearest enclosing Do, For, or While in a procedural program.

PlayRange (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

PlayRange is an option for Play and related functions which specifies what range of sound amplitude levels should be included.

VariationalBound (Variational Methods Package Symbol)

VariationalBound[f, u[x ], {x, x_min, x_max}, u_t, {a}, {b}, ...] finds values of the parameters a, b, ... of a trial function u_t that extremize the functional ...

The Representation of Sound (Mathematica Tutorial)

"Sound" describes how you can take functions and lists of data and produce sounds from them. Here we discuss how sounds are represented in Mathematica. Mathematica treats ...

Variables and Starting Conditions (Mathematica Tutorial)

All the functions FindMinimum, FindMaximum, and FindRoot take variable specifications of the same form. The function FindFit uses the same form for its parameter ...

ContourPlot3D (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ContourPlot3D[f, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, y_max}, {z, z_min, z_max}] produces a three-dimensional contour plot of f as a function of x, y, and z. ContourPlot3D[f == g, ...