Operations on Strings (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica provides a variety of functions for manipulating strings. Most of these functions are based on viewing strings as a sequence of characters, and many of the ...

Portability of MathLink Programs (Mathematica Tutorial)

The Mathematica side of a MathLink connection is set up to work exactly the same on all computer systems. But inevitably there are differences between external programs on ...

Sparse Arrays: Manipulating Lists (Mathematica Tutorial)

Lists are normally specified in Mathematica just by giving explicit lists of their elements. But particularly in working with large arrays, it is often useful instead to be ...

The Syntax of the Mathematica Language (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica uses various syntactic rules to interpret input that you give, and to convert strings and boxes into expressions. The version of these rules that is used for ...

Creating Tables with Raw SQL (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

The raw SQL command CREATE TABLE creates tables in a database. An alternative is to use the Mathematica command SQLCreateTable, described in "Creating Tables". If you find ...

Dynamic (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Dynamic[expr] represents an object that displays as the dynamically updated current value of expr. If the displayed form of Dynamic[expr] is interactively changed or edited, ...

LineIntegralConvolutionPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

LineIntegralConvolutionPlot[{{v_x, v_y}, image}, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, y_max}] generates a line integral convolution plot of image convolved with the vector field ...

BreadthFirstScan (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

BreadthFirstScan[g, s, {"event_1" -> f_1, "event_2" -> f_2, ...}] performs a breadth-first scan (bfs) of the graph g starting at the vertex s and evaluates f_i whenever ...

[Right-click] > Front View (Mathematica Menu Item)

Front View sets the view point for the selected (or clicked upon) 3D graphic to the default front orientation.

Window > Magnification (Mathematica Menu Item)

Magnification changes the display magnification for a notebook.