The Evaluation Stack (Mathematica Tutorial)

Throughout any computation, Mathematica maintains an evaluation stack containing the expressions it is currently evaluating. You can use the function Stack to look at the ...

SQLColumnNames (DatabaseLink Symbol)

SQLColumnNames[conn] returns a list of {table, name} pairs for each column in an SQL connection.

Patterns and Transformation Rules (Mathematica Tutorial)

Patterns stand for classes of expressions. They contain pattern objects that represent sets of possible expressions. Pattern objects. When several pattern objects with the ...

Extrapolation Method for NDSolve (Mathematica Tutorial)

Extrapolation methods are a class of arbitrary-order methods with automatic order and step-size control. The error estimate comes from computing a solution over an interval ...

Elliptic Integrals and Elliptic ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

Even more so than for other special functions, you need to be very careful about the arguments you give to elliptic integrals and elliptic functions. There are several ...

TIFF (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

Registered MIME type: image/tiff TIFF raster image format. Commonly used in image manipulation applications, page layout applications, scanners and other imaging devices, and ...

XML (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

MIME type: text/xml XML general-purpose markup language and structured document format. Primarily used for the exchange of data across different systems in computer networks. ...

AlgebraicNumber (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

AlgebraicNumber[\[Theta], {c_0, c_1, ..., c_n}] represents the algebraic number in the field \[DoubleStruckCapitalQ][\[Theta]] given by c_0 + c_1 \[Theta] + ... + c_n ...

DateList (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DateList[] gives the current local date and time in the form {year, month, day, hour, minute, second}. DateList[time] gives a date list corresponding to an AbsoluteTime ...

DiscreteShift (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DiscreteShift[f, i] gives the discrete shift DiscreteShift[f(i), i] == f(i + 1). DiscreteShift[f, {i, n}] gives the multiple shift \[DiscreteShift]_i^n\ f.DiscreteShift[f, ...