FindMaxValue (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindMaxValue[f, x] gives the value at a local maximum of f.FindMaxValue[f, {x, x_0}] gives the value at a local maximum of f, found by a search starting from the point x = ...

FindMinValue (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindMinValue[f, x] gives the value at a local minimum of f.FindMinValue[f, {x, x_0}] gives the value at a local minimum of f, found by a search starting from the point x = ...

Coordinate Systems for ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

Whenever Mathematica draws a three-dimensional object, it always effectively puts a cuboidal box around the object. With the default option setting Boxed->True, Mathematica ...

Options for Graphics (Mathematica Tutorial)

When Mathematica plots a graph for you, it has to make many choices. It has to work out what the scales should be, where the function should be sampled, how the axes should ...

Linear Algebra (Mathematica Overview)

Constructing Matrices Getting and Setting Pieces of Matrices Scalars, Vectors, and Matrices

Lists (Mathematica Overview)

Making Lists of Objects Collecting Objects Together Making Tables of Values

Result Sets (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

When many rows of data are returned from a database query, a significant amount of memory may be required to hold the result. If all of the data does not need to be available ...

Trust Region Methods (Mathematica Tutorial)

A trust region method has a region around the current search point, where the quadratic model for "local minimization" is "trusted" to be correct and steps are chosen to stay ...

Histogram (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Histogram[{x_1, x_2, ...}] plots a histogram of the values x_i.Histogram[{x_1, x_2, ...}, bspec] plots a histogram with bin width specification bspec.Histogram[{x_1, x_2, ...

StreamDensityPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

StreamDensityPlot[{{v_x, v_y}, s}, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, y_max}] generates a stream plot of the vector field {v_x, v_y} as a function of x and y, superimposed on a ...