Mathematica's symbolic character allows it to handle generalized functions or "distributions" as a direct extension of classical mathematical functions, and to represent ...

PrependTo[s, elem] prepends elem to the value of s, and resets s to the result.

Functions for manipulating elements in explicit lists. This gives a list with x prepended. This inserts x so that it becomes element number 2.

ComposeList[{f_1, f_2, ...}, x] generates a list of the form {x, f_1[x], f_2[f_1[x]], ...}.

Combinatorial functions. The factorial function n! gives the number of ways of ordering n objects. For non-integer n, the numerical value of n! is obtained from the gamma ...

"Values for Symbols" discussed how you can use transformation rules of the form x->value to replace symbols by values. The notion of transformation rules in Mathematica is, ...

Lists are at the core of Mathematica 's symbolic language. These "How tos" give step-by-step instructions for common tasks related to creating and manipulating lists.

Hundreds of thousands of mathematical results derived at Wolfram Research give Mathematica unprecedented strength in the transformation and simplification of hypergeometric ...

When working in Mathematica , you will often find it useful to view groups of functions that relate to a specific subject area or set of tasks. The Documentation Center ...

Functions for grouping together elements of lists. Here is a list. This groups the elements of the list in pairs, throwing away the single element left at the end.