Converting between strings and lists of characters. This gives a list of the characters in the string. You can apply standard list manipulation operations to this list.

When you set up a graphics object in Mathematica, you give coordinates for the various graphical elements that appear. When Mathematica renders the graphics object, it has to ...

There are many functions that are built into Mathematica. This tutorial discusses how you can add your own simple functions to Mathematica. As a first example, consider ...

A Riccati equation is a first-order equation of the form This equation was used by Count Riccati of Venice (1676–1754) to help in solving second-order ordinary differential ...

In many kinds of calculations, you may find yourself typing the same input to Mathematica over and over again. You can save yourself a lot of typing by defining a function ...

The functions described in "Textual Input and Output Overview" determine how expressions should be formatted when they are printed, but they do not actually cause anything to ...

Mathematica creates a new symbol when you first enter a particular name. Sometimes it is useful to "intercept" the process of creating a new symbol. Mathematica provides ...

Manipulating global options in the front end. Just like cells and notebooks, the complete Mathematica front end has various options, which you can look at and manipulate from ...

Repeated patterns. Multiple blanks such as x__ allow you to give patterns in which sequences of arbitrary expressions can occur. The Mathematica pattern repetition operators ...

Type the symbol that will have the superscript. Type x. Create a superscript by pressing the Control key and the 6 key at the same time.