Trust Region Methods (Mathematica Tutorial)

A trust region method has a region around the current search point, where the quadratic model for "local minimization" is "trusted" to be correct and steps are chosen to stay ...

CUDALink on Multiple Devices (CUDALink Tutorial)

The functional and list-oriented characteristics of the core Mathematica language allow CUDALink to provide immediate built-in data parallelism, automatically distributing ...

Primality Proving Package (Primality Proving Package Tutorial)

This package implements primality proving. If ProvablePrimeQ[n] returns True, then the number n can be mathematically proven to be prime. In addition, PrimeQCertificate[n] ...

Clean Up Data Imported from a Website (Mathematica How To)

The connectivity and data-processing capabilities of Mathematica make it ideal for importing and analyzing data displayed on a website. In most cases, this is relatively ...

FindMaximum (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindMaximum[f, x] searches for a local maximum in f, starting from an automatically selected point.FindMaximum[f, {x, x_0}] searches for a local maximum in f, starting from ...

FindMinimum (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindMinimum[f, x] searches for a local minimum in f, starting from an automatically selected point.FindMinimum[f, {x, x_0}] searches for a local minimum in f, starting from ...

GeometricDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

GeometricDistribution[p] represents a geometric distribution with probability parameter p.

TimeValue (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

TimeValue[s, i, t] calculates the time value of a security s at time t for an interest specified by i.

Generalized Input (Mathematica Tutorial)

The fundamental paradigm of most computer languages, including Mathematica, is that input is given and processed into output. Historically, such input has consisted of ...

Hierarchical Drawing of Directed Graphs (Mathematica Tutorial)

LayeredGraphPlot attempts to draw the vertices of a graph in a series of layers, placing dominant vertices at the top, and vertices lower in the hierarchy progressively ...