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Testing for numeric quantities. Pi is a symbol, so Pi+3 is not explicitly a number. It does however have a numerical value.

Specifying patterns that involve alternatives. This defines h to give p when its argument is either a or b. The first two cases give p.

Mathematica can work with polynomials whose coefficients are in the finite field Z_p of integers modulo a prime p. Functions for manipulating polynomials over finite fields. ...

Expressions corresponding to cells. Here is a notebook containing a text cell and a Mathematica input cell. Here are the expressions corresponding to these cells.

[AN96] Adams, L. and J. L. Nazareth. (Eds.) Linear and Nonlinear Conjugate Gradient-Related Methods. SIAM, 1996. [Br02] Brent, R. P. Algorithms for Minimization without ...

The Virtual Book is a browsable electronic collection of all the Mathematica tutorials, grouped according to functionality. It is an excellent place for users of all levels ...

Mathematica represents matrices and vectors using lists. Anything that is not a list Mathematica considers as a scalar. A vector in Mathematica consists of a list of scalars. ...

The Part function allows you to access specific parts of Mathematica expressions. But particularly when your expressions have fairly uniform structure, it is often convenient ...

In a statement like x^4+x^2>0, Mathematica treats the variable x as having a definite, though unspecified, value. Sometimes, however, it is useful to be able to make ...