Options associated with the interactive entering of expressions. The option SingleLetterItalics is typically set whenever a cell uses TraditionalForm. Here is an expression ...

Pure functions. When you use functional operations such as Nest and Map, you always have to specify a function to apply. In all the examples above, we have used the "name" of ...

If you represent the n^th term in a sequence as a[n], you can use a recurrence equation to specify how it is related to other terms in the sequence. RSolve takes recurrence ...

Throughout any computation, Mathematica maintains an evaluation stack containing the expressions it is currently evaluating. You can use the function Stack to look at the ...

Converting from strings or boxes to expressions. This takes a string and interprets it as an expression. Here is the box structure corresponding to the textual form of an ...

When searching for a real simple root of a real valued function, it is possible to take advantage of the special geometry of the problem, where the function crosses the axis ...

Type 2+2 and then press Shift+Enter (hold down the Shift key and press Enter) to tell Mathematica to evaluate your input. Note that labels are added automatically, and output ...

JDBCDrivers[] returns a list of information about JDBC drivers available through DatabaseResourcesPath.JDBCDrivers[name] returns a list of information about the JDBC driver ...

SQLTableTypeNames[conn] returns the types of table supported in an SQL connection.

Widget["Table"] represents a table.