The execution of a Mathematica program involves the evaluation of a sequence of Mathematica expressions. In simple programs, the expressions to be evaluated may be separated ...

Fold[f, x, list] gives the last element of FoldList[f, x, list].

Mathematica provides various ways to set up conditionals, which specify that particular expressions should be evaluated only if certain conditions hold. Conditional ...

Mathematica includes comprehensive support for XML, the meta-markup language developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for describing structured documents and data. ...

Item[expr, options] represents an item within constructs such as Grid, Overlay, and Manipulate that displays with expr as the content, and with the specified options applied ...

Converting to and from character codes. Mathematica assigns every character that can appear in a string a unique character code. This code is used internally as a way to ...

Even though the GUIKit widget expression was designed with user interface issues in mind, you can construct object trees unrelated to user interface widgets and still take ...

Animations can convey much more information than static displays. The built-in Mathematica functions Animate and ListAnimate provide an immediate way to construct animations ...

The integrated visualization capabilities of Mathematica provide many tools to show data in 3D. The ability to plot points, surfaces, and contours, combined with the ...

InteractiveTradingChart[{{date_1, {open_1, high_1, low_1, close_1, volume_1}}, ...}] makes a chart showing prices and volume for each date. InteractiveTradingChart[{" name", ...