The ability to define and use your own functions is part of what gives Mathematica such power. It is often inconvenient to have to explicitly name a function for every small ...

"Defining Functions" discusses how you can define functions in Mathematica. In a typical case, you would type in f[x_]=x^2 to define a function f. (Actually, the definitions ...

DefineDLLFunction["func", " dll", rtype, atypes] returns a Mathematica function that calls the specified function func with argument types atypes and return type rtype in the ...

Mathematica can plot parametric functions in both two and three dimensions. Use a parametric plot when you can express the x and y or x , y , and z coordinates at each point ...

$DisplayFunction gives the default setting for the option DisplayFunction in graphics functions.

DateFunction is an option for DateListPlot that specifies how dates given as input should be converted to date lists.

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 ...