Mathematica 8 adds a number of new areas for visualization, including statistical, financial, wavelet, and control-related visualizations. These areas all provide a high ...

Normal[expr] converts expr to a normal expression, from a variety of special forms.

CellularAutomaton[rule, init, t] generates a list representing the evolution of the cellular automaton with the specified rule from initial condition init for t steps. ...

RandomVariate[dist] gives a pseudorandom variate from the symbolic distribution dist.RandomVariate[dist, n] gives a list of n pseudorandom variates from the symbolic ...

Extrapolation methods are a class of arbitrary-order methods with automatic order and step-size control. The error estimate comes from computing a solution over an interval ...

General issues about the internal implementation of Mathematica are discussed in "The Internals of Mathematica". Given here are brief notes on particular features. These ...

StatusArea[expr, string] displays string in the status area of the current notebook when the mouse pointer is in the region where expr appears.

DataSourceNames[] returns a list of the names of data sources made available through DatabaseResourcesPath.

ExampleData["type"] gives a list of names of examples of the specified type.ExampleData[{" type", " name"}] gives the default form of the named example of the specified ...

A wide variety of plots and charts are used to gain an overview of data from a statistical perspective. Some summarize statistical computations on the data, while others ...