Clean Up Data Imported from a ZIP File (Mathematica How To)

In addition to importing ZIP files stored on your machine, Mathematica can also import ZIP files directly from a URL. In most cases, processing data in ZIP files is ...

Introduction to Control Objects (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica includes many controls and structures related to controls as part of its core language. These control objects are supported in a completely seamless way ...

JPEG (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

MIME type: image/jpeg JPEG raster image and compression format. Commonly used for photographic images by digital cameras and on the web. JPEG is an acronym for Joint ...

HornerForm (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

HornerForm[poly] puts the polynomial poly in Horner form.HornerForm[poly, vars] puts poly in Horner form with respect to the variable or variable list ...

Norm (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Norm[expr] gives the norm of a number, vector or matrix. Norm[expr, p] gives the p-norm.

Plot3D (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Plot3D[f, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, y_max}] generates a three-dimensional plot of f as a function of x and y. Plot3D[{f_1, f_2, ...}, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, ...

Integrals That Can and Cannot Be Done (Mathematica Tutorial)

Evaluating integrals is much more difficult than evaluating derivatives. For derivatives, there is a systematic procedure based on the chain rule that effectively allows any ...

Lighting and Surface Properties (Mathematica Tutorial)

With the default option setting Lighting->Automatic, Mathematica uses a simulated lighting model to determine how to color polygons in three-dimensional graphics. Mathematica ...

Norms in NDSolve (Mathematica Tutorial)

NDSolve uses norms of error estimates to determine when solutions satisfy error tolerances. In nearly all cases the norm has been weighted, or scaled, such that it is less ...

Using Assumptions (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica normally makes as few assumptions as possible about the objects you ask it to manipulate. This means that the results it gives are as general as possible. But ...