Integrated into Mathematica is a full range of state-of-the-art local and global optimization techniques, both numeric and symbolic, including constrained nonlinear ...

Integrated into the core Mathematica language is industrial-strength string manipulation, not only with ordinary regular expressions, but also with Mathematica's own powerful ...

Mathematica symbolic expressions can represent an immense range of types of objects. Mathematica provides a rich collection of functions to test expressions. Functions that ...

Mathematica includes functionality to factor polynomials symbolically.

InstallService["url"] installs the web service operations in the WSDL description at the URL given.InstallService["url", "context`"] installs web service operations, creating ...

Point[coords] is a graphics primitive that represents a point. Point[{coords_1, coords_2, ...}] represents a collection of points.

When you use //N to get a numerical result, Mathematica does what a standard calculator would do: it gives you a result to a fixed number of significant figures. You can also ...

Making lists from functions. This makes a list of 5 elements, each of the form p[i]. Here is another way to produce the same list.

When you manipulate power series, it is sometimes convenient to think of the series as representing functions, which you can, for example, compose or invert. Composition and ...

If you make a definition such as f[x_]:=value, Mathematica will use the value you give for any f function it encounters. In some cases, however, you may want to define a ...