Automatic Loading of Import/Export ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

In addition to the interfaces of Import and Export, Mathematica 8 comes with an autoloading mechanism that simplifies the registration of formats used by the Import and ...

Redrawing and Combining Plots (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica saves information about every plot you produce, so that you can later redraw it. When you redraw plots, you can change some of the options you use. Functions for ...

LinkReadyQ (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

LinkReadyQ[link] tests whether there is an expression ready to read from the specified MathLink connection. LinkReadyQ[link, t] waits for up to t seconds to see if an ...

Quit (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Quit[] terminates a Mathematica kernel session.

Introduction to Local Minimization (Mathematica Tutorial)

The essence of most methods is in the local quadratic model that is used to determine the next step. The FindMinimum function in Mathematica has five essentially different ...

Share (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Share[expr] changes the way expr is stored internally, to try and minimize the amount of memory used. Share[] tries to minimize the memory used to store all expressions.

Map a Function over a List (Mathematica How To)

Mathematica includes many powerful operations for working with lists. It is often desirable to map a function onto each individual element in a list. While listable functions ...

Cycles (Combinatorica Package Symbol)

Cycles is an optional argument for the function Involutions.

Directed (Combinatorica Package Symbol)

Directed is an option value for Type.

Euclidean (Combinatorica Package Symbol)

Euclidean is an option for SetEdgeWeights.