The control mechanisms set up for NDSolve enable you to define your own numerical integration algorithms and use them as specifications for the Method option of NDSolve. ...

Uninstall[link] terminates an external program started by Install, and removes Mathematica definitions set up by it.

Different measures of distance or similarity are convenient for different types of analysis. Mathematica provides built-in functions for many standard distance measures, as ...

Around 1870, Marius Sophus Lie realized that many of the methods for solving differential equations could be unified using group theory. Lie symmetry methods are central to ...

GeoDistance[{lat_1, long_1}, {lat_2, long_2}] gives the geodesic distance in meters between latitude-longitude positions on the Earth.GeoDistance[pos_1, pos_2] gives the ...

FindMaxValue[f, x] gives the value at a local maximum of f.FindMaxValue[f, {x, x_0}] gives the value at a local maximum of f, found by a search starting from the point x = ...

FindMinValue[f, x] gives the value at a local minimum of f.FindMinValue[f, {x, x_0}] gives the value at a local minimum of f, found by a search starting from the point x = ...

Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. The eigenvalues of a matrix m are the values λ_i for which one can find nonzero vectors v_i such that m.v_i λ_iv_i. The eigenvectors are the ...

The utility functions FindMinimumPlot and FindRootPlot show search data for FindMinimum and FindRoot for one- and two-dimensional functions. They work with essentially the ...

Conjunction[expr, {a_1, a_2, ...}] gives the conjunction of expr over all choices of the Boolean variables a_i.