Your First Mathematica Calculations (Mathematica Tutorial)

Type 2+2 and then press Shift+Enter (hold down the Shift key and press Enter) to tell Mathematica to evaluate your input. Note that labels are added automatically, and output ...

IdentityMatrix (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

IdentityMatrix[n] gives the n*n identity matrix.

StringDrop (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

StringDrop["string", n] gives " string" with its first n characters dropped. StringDrop["string", -n] gives " string" with its last n characters dropped. StringDrop["string", ...

Registration and Passwords (Mathematica Tutorial)

To install and use Mathematica and MathLM, you must activate your product and receive a password. Before registering, you must first begin the installation process according ...

Do Constrained Nonlinear Optimization (Mathematica How To)

An important subset of optimization problems is constrained nonlinear optimization, where the function is not linear and the parameter values are constrained to certain ...

Writing Java Programs That Use ... (JLink Tutorial)

The first part of this User Guide describes using J/Link to allow you to call from Mathematica into Java, thereby extending the Mathematica environment to include the ...

StirlingS1 (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

StirlingS1[n, m] gives the Stirling number of the first kind S_n^(m).

Primality Proving Package (Primality Proving Package Tutorial)

This package implements primality proving. If ProvablePrimeQ[n] returns True, then the number n can be mathematically proven to be prime. In addition, PrimeQCertificate[n] ...

ShearingTransform (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ShearingTransform[\[Theta], v, n] gives a TransformationFunction that represents a shear by \[Theta] radians along the direction of the vector v, normal to the vector n, and ...

FaceForm (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FaceForm[g] is a graphics directive which specifies that faces of polygons and other filled graphics objects are to be drawn using the graphics directive or list of ...