The standard front end interface, as discussed in "Using a Notebook Interface", is appropriate for most users' purposes. In some cases, however, you may not need to use the ...

Timing[expr] evaluates expr, and returns a list of the time in seconds used, together with the result obtained.

Many differential equations exhibit some form of stiffness, which restricts the step size and hence effectiveness of explicit solution methods. A number of implicit methods ...

CoordinateSystem gives the name of the default coordinate system.

Option Inspector view and set all option values for cells, notebooks, and global preferences.

ControllerManipulate[expr, {u, u_min, u_max}] generates a version of expr set up to allow interactive manipulation of the value of u using an external controller ...

InstallService["url"] installs the web service operations in the WSDL description at the URL given.InstallService["url", "context`"] installs web service operations, creating ...

Share[expr] changes the way expr is stored internally, to try and minimize the amount of memory used. Share[] tries to minimize the memory used to store all expressions.

Stack[] shows the current evaluation stack, giving a list of the tags associated with evaluations that are currently being done. Stack[pattern] gives a list of expressions ...

Mathematica is one of the more complex software systems ever constructed. It is built from several million lines of source code, written in C/C++, Java and Mathematica. The C ...