The symbolic language paradigm of Mathematica takes the concept of variables and functions to a new level. In Mathematica a variable can not only stand for a value, but can ...

Turning conditions into numbers. Boole[expr] is a basic function that turns True and False into 1 and 0. It is sometimes known as the characteristic function or indicator ...

 

Mathematica includes all the common special functions of mathematical physics found in standard handbooks. Each of the various classes of functions is discussed in turn. One ...

With careful standardization of argument conventions, Mathematica provides full coverage of all standard types of elliptic functions, with arbitrary-precision numerical ...

Column of numbers or strings. Stores a list of numbers or strings as lines. Plain text format. Is essentially a single-column version of the "Table" format.

The MathLink library provides a collection of C language functions for interacting with Mathematica via MathLink. These functions allow you not only to handle native C data ...

Constructing Lists Manipulating Lists by Their Indices Nested Lists

"Defining Functions" discusses how you can define functions in Mathematica. In a typical case, you would type in f[x_]=x^2 to define a function f. (Actually, the definitions ...

Some common operations on special functions. Most special functions have simpler forms when given certain specific arguments. Mathematica will automatically simplify special ...