Concurrency: Managing Parallel Processes (Parallel Package Tutorial)

A process is simply a Mathematica expression being evaluated. A processor is a parallel kernel that performs such evaluations. The command ParallelEvaluate discussed in the ...

Working with String Patterns (Mathematica Tutorial)

The general symbolic string patterns in Mathematica allow you to perform powerful string manipulation efficiently. What follows discusses the details of string patterns, ...

Listing of All Formats (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica supports many formats, with many subformats, variants, and options.

ArcSin (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ArcSin[z] gives the arc sine sin -1 (z) of the complex number z.

ArrayFlatten (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ArrayFlatten[{{m_11, m_12, ...}, {m_21, m_22, ...}, ...}] creates a single flattened matrix from a matrix of matrices m i j. ArrayFlatten[a, r] flattens out r pairs of levels ...

CharacterRange (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

CharacterRange["c_1", "c_2"] yields a list of the characters in the range from "c_1" to "c_2".

DateList (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DateList[] gives the current local date and time in the form {year, month, day, hour, minute, second}. DateList[time] gives a date list corresponding to an AbsoluteTime ...

Eigenvectors (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Eigenvectors[m] gives a list of the eigenvectors of the square matrix m. Eigenvectors[{m, a}] gives the generalized eigenvectors of m with respect to a. Eigenvectors[m, k] ...

EllipticK (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

EllipticK[m] gives the complete elliptic integral of the first kind K(m).

FourierDCT (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FourierDCT[list] finds the Fourier discrete cosine transform of a list of real numbers.FourierDCT[list, m] finds the Fourier discrete cosine transform of type m.