FindMaximum (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindMaximum[f, x] searches for a local maximum in f, starting from an automatically selected point.FindMaximum[f, {x, x_0}] searches for a local maximum in f, starting from ...

FindMinimum (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindMinimum[f, x] searches for a local minimum in f, starting from an automatically selected point.FindMinimum[f, {x, x_0}] searches for a local minimum in f, starting from ...

Simplification (Mathematica Tutorial)

Simplifying expressions. Mathematica does not automatically simplify an algebraic expression like this. Simplify performs the simplification.

ControllableDecomposition (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ControllableDecomposition[ss] yields the controllable decomposition of the StateSpaceModel object ss. The result is a list {s_c, ss_c} where s_c is the transformation matrix ...

FindRoot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindRoot[f, {x, x_0}] searches for a numerical root of f, starting from the point x = x_0.FindRoot[lhs == rhs, {x, x_0}] searches for a numerical solution to the equation lhs ...

Create and Use Rules (Mathematica How To)

Transformation rules in Mathematica let you set local values for symbols, functions, and all other types of expressions. Using rules provides a powerful and extensible method ...

InterpolationOrder (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

InterpolationOrder is an option for Interpolation, as well as ListLinePlot, ListPlot3D, ListContourPlot, and related functions, that specifies what order of interpolation to ...

LeastSquares (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

LeastSquares[m, b] finds an x that solves the linear least-squares problem for the matrix equation m.x == b.

KernelMixtureDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

KernelMixtureDistribution[{x_1, x_2, ...}] represents a kernel mixture distribution based on the data values x_i.KernelMixtureDistribution[{{x_1, y_1, ...}, {x_2, y_2, ...}, ...

Putting Expressions into Different Forms (Mathematica Tutorial)

Complicated algebraic expressions can usually be written in many different ways. Mathematica provides a variety of functions for converting expressions from one form to ...