You can do arithmetic with Mathematica just as you would on an electronic calculator. This is the sum of two numbers. Here the / stands for division, and the ^ stands for ...

We first encountered lists in "Making Lists of Objects" as a way of collecting numbers together. Here, we shall see many different ways to use lists. You will find that lists ...

Converting power series to normal expressions. Power series in Mathematica are represented in a special internal form, which keeps track of such attributes as their expansion ...

Supporting a large number of numerical integration methods for differential equations is a lot of work. In order to cut down on maintenance and duplication of code, common ...

MathLink allows you to run external programs under whatever debugger is provided in your software environment. MathLink-compatible programs are typically set up to take ...

Testing and searching for elements of lists. "Getting Pieces of Lists" discusses how to extract pieces of lists based on their positions or indices. Mathematica also has ...

There are many ways to use symbols in Mathematica. Here we use symbols as 'tags' for different types of objects. Working with physical units gives one simple example. When ...

SQLCatalogNames[conn] returns the names of the catalogs in an SQL connection.

SQLSchemaNames[conn] returns the names of the schema in an SQL connection.

DoModal -- wait until the Java window is closed, JavaShow -- make a window visible and in front, ShowJavaConsole -- display System.out and System.err output in a separate ...