Notebook Basics (Mathematica Guide)

From simple calculations to full publishable documents and sophisticated dynamic interfaces, everything you can do with Mathematica's standard interactive interface is done ...

Create a Matrix (Mathematica How To)

Matrices are represented in Mathematica with lists. They can be entered directly with the { } notation, constructed from a formula, or imported from a data file. Mathematica ...

Select and Type in Notebooks (Mathematica How To)

MATHEMATICA HOW TO Tutorials » Notebooks as Documents Doing Computations in Notebooks Options for Notebooks Options for Cells Two-Dimensional Expression Input Entering ...

Dot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

a.b.c or Dot[a, b, c] gives products of vectors, matrices, and tensors.

Options (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Options[symbol] gives the list of default options assigned to a symbol. Options[expr] gives the options explicitly specified in a particular expression such as a graphics ...

Evaluation in Patterns, Rules, and ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

There are a number of important interactions in Mathematica between evaluation and pattern matching. The first observation is that pattern matching is usually done on ...

Interactive Manipulation (Mathematica Guide)

The single function Manipulate gives immediate access to a huge range of powerful interactive capabilities. For any expression with symbolic parameters, Manipulate ...

Mathematica Session Information (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica gives you immediate access to many details of your Mathematica session—in the form of symbolic expressions that can readily be manipulated by the Mathematica ...

\[Precedes] (Mathematica Character Name)

Unicode: 227A. Infix ordering operator. x ≺ y is by default interpreted as Precedes[x,y]. Used in mathematics to indicate various notions of partial ordering. Often applied ...

Converting between Expressions & Strings (Mathematica Guide)

Expressions in Mathematica can be represented as strings in a variety of ways, for display, export, or processing. Mathematica provides powerful functions for formatting ...