Summary of New Features in 6.0 (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica 6.0 fundamentally redefined Mathematica and introduced a major new paradigm for computation. Building on Mathematica's time-tested core symbolic architecture, ...

SQLSelect (DatabaseLink Symbol)

SQLSelect[conn, table] extracts data from a table in an SQL connection. SQLSelect[conn, table, cols] extracts data from particular columns.SQLSelect[conn, table, cols, cond] ...

Cos (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Cos[z] gives the cosine of z.

Csc (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Csc[z] gives the cosecant of z.

HazardFunction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

HazardFunction[dist, x] gives the hazard function for the symbolic distribution dist evaluated at x.HazardFunction[dist, {x_1, x_2, ...}] gives the multivariate hazard ...

LatticeData (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

LatticeData[lattice, " property"] gives the specified property for a lattice.LatticeData[n] gives a list of named lattices of dimension n.

LinearSolve (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

LinearSolve[m, b] finds an x which solves the matrix equation m.x == b. LinearSolve[m] generates a LinearSolveFunction[...] which can be applied repeatedly to different b.

NMinimize (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

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, ...}] ...

RotationMatrix (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

RotationMatrix[\[Theta]] gives the 2D rotation matrix that rotates 2D vectors counterclockwise by \[Theta] radians.RotationMatrix[\[Theta], w] gives the 3D rotation matrix ...

SetPrecision (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SetPrecision[expr, p] yields a version of expr in which all numbers have been set to have precision p.