EvaluationMonitor (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

EvaluationMonitor is an option for various numerical computation and plotting functions that gives an expression to evaluate whenever functions derived from the input are ...

FindIntegerNullVector (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindIntegerNullVector[{x_1, x_2, ..., x_n}] finds a list of integers a_i such that a_1 x_1 + a_2 x_2 + \[CenterEllipsis] + a_n x_n == 0. FindIntegerNullVector[{x_1, x_2, ..., ...

Plotting Search Data (Mathematica Tutorial)

The utility functions FindMinimumPlot and FindRootPlot show search data for FindMinimum and FindRoot for one- and two-dimensional functions. They work with essentially the ...

Quasi-Newton Methods (Mathematica Tutorial)

There are many variants of quasi-Newton methods. In all of them, the idea is to base the matrix B_k in the quadratic model on an approximation of the Hessian matrix built up ...

Variables and Starting Conditions (Mathematica Tutorial)

All the functions FindMinimum, FindMaximum, and FindRoot take variable specifications of the same form. The function FindFit uses the same form for its parameter ...

Units Package (Units Package Tutorial)

There are many systems of units. The particular set of units that is used depends on factors as various as the field of study and the author's country of origin. The function ...

NIntegrate Integration Rules (Mathematica Tutorial)

An integration rule computes an estimate of an integral over a region, typically using a weighted sum. In the context of NIntegrate usage, an integration rule object provides ...

Specifying Derivatives (Mathematica Tutorial)

The function FindRoot has a Jacobian option; the functions FindMinimum, FindMaximum, and FindFit have a Gradient option; and the "Newton" method has a method option Hessian. ...

BooleanConvert (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

BooleanConvert[expr] converts the Boolean expression expr to disjunctive normal form.BooleanConvert[expr, form] converts the Boolean expression expr to the specified ...

DictionaryLookup (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DictionaryLookup[patt] finds all words in an English dictionary that match the string pattern patt.DictionaryLookup[patt, n] gives only the first n words ...