In a typical Mathematica package, there are generally two kinds of new symbols that are introduced. The first kind are ones that you want to 'export' for use outside the ...

Lists are normally specified in Mathematica just by giving explicit lists of their elements. But particularly in working with large arrays, it is often useful instead to be ...

Here the standard procedure used by Mathematica to evaluate expressions is described. This procedure is the one followed for most kinds of expression. There are, however, ...

"Gauss–Newton" and "conjugate gradient" methods use derivatives. When Mathematica cannot compute symbolic derivatives, finite differences will be used. Computing derivatives ...

Module and With allow you to give a specific list of symbols whose names you want to treat as local. In some situations, however, you want to automatically treat certain ...

Most of the documentation provided for Mathematica is concerned with explaining what Mathematica does, not how it does it. But the purpose of this is to say at least a little ...

Button[label, action] represents a button that is labeled with label, and evaluates action whenever it is clicked.

EvaluationMonitor is an option for various numerical computation and plotting functions that gives an expression to evaluate whenever functions derived from the input are ...

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[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 ...