Use Palettes (Mathematica How To)

Palettes give you immediate access to many features built into Mathematica, from creating syntactically complete expressions and inserting special characters, to building up ...

SetOptions (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SetOptions[s, name_1 -> value_1, name_2 -> value_2, ...] sets the specified default options for a symbol s. SetOptions[stream, ...] or SetOptions["name", ...] sets options ...

Using Previous Results (Mathematica Tutorial)

In doing calculations, you will often need to use previous results that you have got. In Mathematica, % always stands for your last result. Ways to refer to your previous ...

Import and Export Animations (Mathematica How To)

After creating or editing an animation in Mathematica , you can export it for use in other programs. Mathematica can import and export animations in several formats.

Global System Information (Mathematica Tutorial)

In order to write the most general Mathematica programs you will sometimes need to find out global information about the setup under which your program is being run. Thus, ...

Input Syntax (Mathematica Tutorial)

Typical ways to enter characters. All printable ASCII characters can be entered directly. Those that are not alphanumeric are assigned explicit names in Mathematica, allowing ...

Mathematica Session Information (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica gives you immediate access to many details of your Mathematica session—in the form of symbolic expressions that can readily be manipulated by the Mathematica ...

Differences between Computer Systems (Mathematica Tutorial)

There are many detailed differences between different kinds of computer systems. But one of the important features of Mathematica is that it allows you to work and create ...

SystemInformation (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SystemInformation[] gives detailed information about the Mathematica system being run. SystemInformation["comp"] gives a list of rules with information about the component " ...

Exchanging Material with the Web (Mathematica Tutorial)

Converting notebooks to HTML. Export has many options applying to HTML export that allow you to specify how notebooks should be converted for web browsers with different ...