SetAttributes[s, attr] adds attr to the list of attributes of the symbol s.

Show[graphics, options] shows graphics with the specified options added. Show[g_1, g_2, ...] shows several graphics combined.

StringFreeQ["string", patt] yields True if no substring in " string" matches the string expression patt, and yields False otherwise. StringFreeQ["string", {patt_1, patt_2, ...

When you do symbolic calculations, it is quite easy to end up with extremely complicated expressions. Often, you will not even want to see the complete result of a ...

Primitives which can take multiple elements. Some primitives have multi-element forms that can be processed and rendered more quickly by the Mathematica front end than the ...

In many cases, you will find it convenient to communicate with external programs at a high level, and to exchange structured data with them. On almost all computer systems, ...

NSolve gives you a general way to find numerical approximations to the solutions of polynomial equations. Finding numerical solutions to more general equations, however, can ...

SQLBeginTransaction[conn] initiates an SQL transaction.

SQLCommitTransaction[conn] commits an SQL transaction.

When you generate a very large output expression in Mathematica, you often do not want to see the whole expression at once. Rather, you would first like to get an idea of the ...