Advice and Suggested Guidelines (Notation Package Tutorial)

The following are some issues and considerations to be aware of when using the Notation Package and/or designing notations. It is intrinsically difficult to debug something ...

Failure Recovery, Tracing, and Debugging (Parallel Package Tutorial)

A remote kernel in use may fail at any time, due to hardware, network, or software problems. A failure of a remote kernel will be noticed the next time Parallel Computing ...

MathLink Development in C (Mac OS X) (Mathematica Tutorial)

This document describes how to compile and run MathLink programs written in the C language on Mac OS X systems. ("MathLink and External Program Communication" describes how ...

Algebraic Numbers (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica's symbolic character allows it to provide deep integrated support for algebraic numbers. At the core are Root objects, which provide exact implicit ...

Functions Used in Quantum Mechanics (Mathematica Guide)

Graphics Shape & Size (Mathematica Guide)

Of particular importance in handling high-throughput programmatic graphics are Mathematica's sophisticated mechanisms for controlling graphics size and shape—allowing ...

New in 6.0: Matrix & Linear Algebra ... (Mathematica Guide)

Version 6.0 continued Mathematica's commitment to delivering the latest and most efficient algorithms for linear algebra, generalized to arbitrary precision and with full ...

FindLibrary (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindLibrary[lib] finds a dynamic library that can be loaded by LibraryFunctionLoad.

LibraryFunctionInformation (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

LibraryFunctionInformation[fun] returns information about a LibraryFunction.

PlotRegion (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

PlotRegion is an option for graphics functions that specifies what region of the final display area a plot should fill.