Brent's Method (Mathematica Tutorial)

When searching for a real simple root of a real valued function, it is possible to take advantage of the special geometry of the problem, where the function crosses the axis ...

Introduction to Unconstrained ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica has a collection of commands that do unconstrained optimization (FindMinimum and FindMaximum) and solve nonlinear equations (FindRoot) and nonlinear fitting ...

Updating Data (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

SQLUpdate modifies data in a database. An alternative, using raw SQL, is described in "Updating Data with Raw SQL". If you find that the examples in this tutorial do not work ...

TetGenGetFaceMarkers (TetGenLink Package Symbol)

TetGenGetFaceMarkers[expr] returns the face markers for a TetGen expression.

Cellular Automata (Mathematica Tutorial)

Cellular automata provide a convenient way to represent many kinds of systems in which the values of cells in an array are updated in discrete steps according to a local ...

Graph (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Graph[{e_1, e_2, ...}] yields a graph with edges e_j.Graph[{v 1, v 2, ...}, {e_1, e_2, ...}] yields the graph with vertices v_i and edges e_j. Graph[{..., w_i[v_i, ...], ...

MathLink Development in C (Windows) (Mathematica Tutorial)

This document describes how to compile and run MathLink programs written in the C language on computers running a Microsoft Windows operating system. ("MathLink and External ...

Algebraic Number Fields (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica provides representation of algebraic numbers as Root objects. A Root object contains the minimal polynomial of the algebraic number and the root number—an integer ...

Connection Pools (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

Database connection pools are a common way to improve the performance of database operations. They can be useful because creating a new connection can easily take several ...

GraphCoordinates3D (Graph Utilities Package Symbol)

GraphCoordinates3D[g, options] calculates a visually appealing 3D layout of the vertices of a graph g and returns the coordinates of the vertices.