If you have a list of elements, it is often important to be able to apply a function separately to each of the elements. You can do this in Mathematica using Map. This ...

The way modules work in Mathematica is basically very simple. Every time any module is used, a new symbol is created to represent each of its local variables. The new symbol ...

Typical command-line options for Mathematica executables. If the Mathematica front end is called with a notebook file as a command-line argument, then this notebook will be ...

Mathematica provides users with access to their computer's file system (Files), interprocess communication (MathLink Mathematica Functions), evaluation of data as code ...

ColorData["scheme"] gives a function that generates colors in the named color scheme when applied to parameter values. ColorData["scheme", " property"] gives the specified ...

All the functions FindMinimum, FindMaximum, and FindRoot take variable specifications of the same form. The function FindFit uses the same form for its parameter ...

The CCompilerDriver package lets you work with C compilers that are installed on your computer. It lets you build executables, libraries, and object files from C source code. ...

Orthogonalize, Normalize and Projection have been added to the built-in Mathematica kernel. Normalize can now take an arbitrary norm function.

XMLGetString["data"] returns the XML expression tree corresponding to a string.XMLGetString["data", parser] uses the pre-initialized XMLParser object to parse the string.

While DSolve usually returns the correct solution to a differential equation it is given, it is common practice to verify the solution returned by any differential equation ...