MathLink allows you to exchange data of any type with external programs. For more common types of data, you simply need to give appropriate :ArgumentTypes: or :ReturnType: ...

CountRoots[poly, x] gives the number of real roots of the polynomial poly in x.CountRoots[poly, {x, a, b}] gives the number of roots between a and b.

Integer is the head used for integers.

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Mathematica usually pays no attention to whether variables like x stand for real or complex numbers. Sometimes, however, you may want to make transformations which are ...

One of the unique strengths of Mathematica's core language is its powerful and succinct—yet highly readable—symbolic pattern language. Convenient both for immediate use in ...

Built into Mathematica are state-of-the-art constrained nonlinear fitting capabilities, conveniently accessed with models given directly in symbolic form. Mathematica also ...

The Mathematica function NDSolve is a general numerical differential equation solver. It can handle a wide range of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) as well as some ...

Mathematica provides many functions to group terms in a polynomial, extract and sort the monomials, display them in various ways, and even process them as arbitrary ...

Mathematica can work with polynomials whose coefficients are in the finite field Z_p of integers modulo a prime p. Functions for manipulating polynomials over finite fields. ...