The first step in using a database is making a connection. This part of the tutorial discusses how to do this. If you are just starting to use DatabaseLink, you might want to ...

With <<, you can read files that contain Mathematica expressions given in input form. Sometimes, however, you may instead need to read files of data in other formats. For ...

PreferencesPath is a global option that specifies which directories are searched for user-specific settings when Mathematica is started.

The functional and list-oriented characteristics of the core Mathematica language allow CUDALink to provide immediate built-in data parallelism, automatically distributing ...

Style[expr, options] displays with expr formatted using the specified option settings. Style[expr, " style"] uses the option settings for the specified style in the current ...

NMinimize[f, x] minimizes f numerically with respect to x.NMinimize[f, {x, y, ...}] minimizes f numerically with respect to x, y, .... NMinimize[{f, cons}, {x, y, ...}] ...

When you set up a graphics object in Mathematica, you give coordinates for the various graphical elements that appear. When Mathematica renders the graphics object, it has to ...

DiscreteLQRegulatorGains[ss, {q, r}, \[Tau]] gives the optimal discrete-time state feedback gain matrix with sampling period \[Tau] for the continuous-time StateSpaceModel ...

Speak[expr] speaks a spoken representation of the expression expr.

Basic two-dimensional graphics elements. Here is a line primitive. This shows the line as a two-dimensional graphics object.