ZernikeR[n, m, r] gives the radial Zernike polynomial R_n^m(r).

Steps in the operation of Mathematica. When you type something like x^2 what Mathematica at first sees is just the string of characters x, ^, 2. But with the usual way that ...

A symmetric polynomial in variables x_1,…,x_n is a polynomial that is invariant under arbitrary permutations of x_1,…,x_n. Polynomials are called elementary symmetric ...

SQLTable[...] represents a table in an SQL connection.

Name is an option to GUIKit expression functions and identifies a string name with which to register the widget instance in the active widget registry.

The functional and list-oriented characteristics of the core Mathematica language allow Mathematica to provide immediate built-in data parallelism, automatically distributing ...

Automatically selecting between hundreds of powerful and in many cases original algorithms, Mathematica provides both numerical and symbolic solving of differential equations ...

Mathematica 8 introduces a coherent collection of algorithms and data structures for working with permutation groups. Building upon Mathematica's proven symbolic ...

At the core of Mathematica is its highly developed symbolic language, which unifies a broad range of programming paradigms and uses its unique concept of symbolic programming ...

When exchanging expressions with external programs, the Mathematica kernel uses the convention of wrapping the expressions inside packets which identify what role the ...