Introduction (Mathematica Overview)

Running Mathematica Getting Started Working with the Notebook Interface

FindMinimum (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindMinimum[f, x] searches for a local minimum in f, starting from an automatically selected point.FindMinimum[f, {x, x_0}] searches for a local minimum in f, starting from ...

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 = ...

Benchmarking Package (Benchmarking Package Guide)

Line Search Methods (Mathematica Tutorial)

A method like "Newton's" method chooses a step, but the validity of that step only goes as far as the Newton quadratic model for the function really reflects the function. ...

StabilityMargins (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

StabilityMargins is an option to frequency response plots such as BodePlot, NyquistPlot, and NicholsPlot that specifies the gain and phase margins to be shown on the plot.

Equation Solving (Mathematica Guide)

Built into Mathematica is the world's largest collection of both numerical and symbolic equation solving capabilities—with many original algorithms, all automatically ...

Table Structure (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

This section discusses commands that get information about database tables. If you find that the examples in this section do not work as shown, you may need to install or ...

Directories & Directory Operations (Mathematica Guide)

New in 6.0: Data Handling & Data Sources (Mathematica Guide)

Building on the concept of symbolic data description, Mathematica 6.0 introduced the major new "elements" framework for handling import and export of data, in nearly a ...