Functions that are specified by simple algebraic formulas tend to be such that when their input is changed only slightly, their output also changes only slightly. But ...

Looping is a core concept in programming. Mathematica provides powerful primitives for specifying and controlling looping, not only in traditional procedural programming, but ...

Many computations are conveniently specified in terms of applying functions in parallel to many elements in a list. Mathematica provides a suite of elegant functional ...

Density and contour plots. This gives a density plot of sin(x) sin(y). Lighter regions show higher values of the function. Some options for DensityPlot.

Cellular automata provide a convenient way to represent many kinds of systems in which the values of cells in an array are updated in discrete steps according to a local ...

MIME type: image/bmp BMP Windows bitmap format. Raster image format. Native bitmap format of the Microsoft Windows operating system. BMP is an acronym derived from Bitmap. ...

StableDistribution[type, \[Alpha], \[Beta], \[Mu], \[Sigma]] represents the stable distribution S_type with index of stability \[Alpha], skewness parameter \[Beta], location ...

ContinuousWaveletData[{{oct_1, voc_1} -> coef_1, ...}, wave] yields a continuous wavelet data object with wavelet coefficients coef_i corresponding to octave and voice ...

FontSubstitutions is an option for Style and Cell that gives a list of substitutions to try for font family names.

Long viewed as an important theoretical idea, functional programming finally became truly convenient and practical with the introduction of Mathematica's symbolic language. ...