Output Formats for Numbers (Mathematica Tutorial)

Output formats for numbers. These numbers are given in the default output format. Large numbers are given in scientific notation. This gives all numbers in scientific ...

String Representation of Boxes (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica provides a compact way of representing boxes in terms of strings. This is particularly convenient when you want to import or export specifications of boxes as ...

The Structure of Graphics (Mathematica Tutorial)

"Graphics and Sound" discusses how to use functions like Plot and ListPlot to plot graphs of functions and data. This tutorial discusses how Mathematica represents such ...

Tracing Evaluation (Mathematica Tutorial)

The standard way in which Mathematica works is to take any expression you give as input, evaluate the expression completely, and then return the result. When you are trying ...

The Secant Method (Mathematica Tutorial)

When derivatives cannot be computed symbolically, "Newton's" method will be used, but with a finite difference approximation to the Jacobian. This can have costs in terms of ...

Symbolic Evaluation (Mathematica Tutorial)

The functions FindMinimum, FindMaximum, and FindRoot have the HoldAll attribute and so have special semantics for evaluation of their arguments. First, the variables are ...

Why You Do Not Usually Need to Know ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

Most of the documentation provided for Mathematica is concerned with explaining what Mathematica does, not how it does it. But the purpose of this is to say at least a little ...

Use Derivatives for Setting Up ... (Mathematica How To)

Mathematica 's functions for solving differential equations can be applied to many different classes of differential equations, including ordinary differential equations ...

FindArgMax (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindArgMax[f, x] gives the position x_max of a local maximum of f.FindArgMax[f, {x, x_0}] gives the position x_max of a local maximum of f, found by a search starting from ...

FindArgMin (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindArgMin[f, x] gives the position x_min of a local minimum of f.FindArgMin[f, {x, x_0}] gives the position x_min of a local minimum of f, found by a search starting from ...