Amazon Web Services Example (WebServices Tutorial)

Amazon.com is a well-known web retailer that specializes in books, music, movies, and many other products. Amazon has made a web service available that allows developers to ...

WordData (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

WordData["word", " property"] gives the specified property for the English word " word".WordData["word"] gives a list of full word specifications representing possible uses ...

Permutation Groups (Mathematica Tutorial)

Groups admit many different representations. In particular, all finite groups can be represented as permutation groups, that is, they are always isomorphic to a subgroup of ...

GraphPath (Graph Utilities Package Symbol)

GraphPath[g, start, end] finds a shortest path between vertices start and end in graph g.

FullSimplify (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FullSimplify[expr] tries a wide range of transformations on expr involving elementary and special functions, and returns the simplest form it finds. FullSimplify[expr, assum] ...

Maximize (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Maximize[f, x] maximizes f with respect to x.Maximize[f, {x, y, ...}] maximizes f with respect to x, y, .... Maximize[{f, cons}, {x, y, ...}] maximizes f subject to the ...

MinValue (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

MinValue[f, x] gives the minimum value of f with respect to x.MinValue[f, {x, y, ...}] gives the minimum value of f with respect to x, y, .... MinValue[{f, cons}, {x, y, ...

Quasi-Newton Methods (Mathematica Tutorial)

There are many variants of quasi-Newton methods. In all of them, the idea is to base the matrix B_k in the quadratic model on an approximation of the Hessian matrix built up ...

ParallelMap (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ParallelMap[f, expr] applies f in parallel to each element on the first level in expr.ParallelMap[f, expr, levelspec] applies f in parallel to parts of expr specified by ...

PERTDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

PERTDistribution[{min, max}, c] represents a PERT distribution with range min to max and maximum at c.PERTDistribution[{min, max}, c, \[Lambda]] represents a modified PERT ...