Ticks (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Ticks is an option for graphics functions that specifies tick marks for axes.

Norms in NDSolve (Mathematica Tutorial)

NDSolve uses norms of error estimates to determine when solutions satisfy error tolerances. In nearly all cases the norm has been weighted, or scaled, such that it is less ...

Structure Matrices and Convolution ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

Constructing matrices with special shapes. This creates a matrix of 0s containing a radius 4 diamond of 1s. The result is a 9×9 matrix. The size of the matrix can be ...

Use Shorthand Notations (Mathematica How To)

Shorthand notations are a part of Mathematica 's rich syntax system that allows multiple ways to feed arguments to functions. In addition to creating compact code, using ...

ImageCompose (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ImageCompose[image, overlay] gives the result of overlaying overlay onto image. ImageCompose[image, {overlay, \[Alpha]}] gives the result of alpha blending overlay into image ...

ReliefImage (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ReliefImage[array] generates a relief image of an array of height values.

RuntimeOptions (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

RuntimeOptions is an option for Compile that specifies runtime settings for the compiled function it creates.

StringCases (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

StringCases["string", patt] gives a list of the substrings in " string" that match the string expression patt. StringCases["string", lhs -> rhs] gives a list of the values of ...

Linear and Quasi-Linear PDEs (Mathematica Tutorial)

First-order PDEs are usually classified as linear, quasi-linear, or nonlinear. The first two types are discussed in this tutorial. A first-order PDE for an unknown function ...

The Representation of Derivatives (Mathematica Tutorial)

Derivatives in Mathematica work essentially the same as in standard mathematics. The usual mathematical notation, however, often hides many details. To understand how ...