DisplayFunction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DisplayFunction is an option for graphics and sound functions that specifies a function to apply to graphics and sound objects before returning them.

CompiledFunction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

CompiledFunction[args...] represents compiled code for evaluating a compiled function.

Using MathLink to Communicate between ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

MathLink connections between Mathematica sessions. This starts up a link on port number 8000. This connects to the link on port 8000.

Special Ways to Input Expressions (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica allows you to use special notation for many common operators. For example, although internally Mathematica represents a sum of two terms as Plus[x,y], you can ...

Short and Shallow Output (Mathematica Tutorial)

When you generate a very large output expression in Mathematica, you often do not want to see the whole expression at once. Rather, you would first like to get an idea of the ...

Tracing Evaluation (Mathematica Tutorial)

The standard way in which Mathematica works is to take any expression you give as input, evaluate the expression completely, and then return the result. When you are trying ...

Picking Out Pieces of Algebraic ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

Functions to pick out pieces of polynomials. Here is an algebraic expression. This gives the coefficient of x in e.

Patterns (Mathematica Guide)

One of the unique strengths of Mathematica's core language is its powerful and succinct—yet highly readable—symbolic pattern language. Convenient both for immediate use in ...

VertexRenderingFunction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

VertexRenderingFunction is an option for GraphPlot and related functions that gives a function to generate the graphics primitives to use in rendering each vertex.

ToNumberField (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ToNumberField[a, \[Theta]] expresses the algebraic number a in the number field generated by \[Theta]. ToNumberField[{a_1, a_2, ...}, \[Theta]] expresses the a_i in the field ...