Virtual Shared Memory (Parallel Package Tutorial)

Special-purpose multiprocessing hardware comes in two types, shared memory and distributed memory. In a shared-memory machine, all processors have access to a common main ...

Variational Methods (Variational Methods Package Tutorial)

The basic problem of the calculus of variations is to determine the function u(x) that extremizes a functional F=∫_SubscriptBox[x^StyleBox[min, FontSlant -> Italic], ...

ListPolarPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ListPolarPlot[{r_1, r_2, ...}] plots points equally spaced in angle at radii r_i.ListPolarPlot[{{\[Theta]_1, r_1}, {\[Theta]_2, r_2}, ...}] plots points at polar coordinates ...

PDF (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

PDF[dist, x] gives the probability density function for the symbolic distribution dist evaluated at x.PDF[dist, {x_1, x_2, ...}] gives the multivariate probability density ...

Series (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Series[f, {x, x_0, n}] generates a power series expansion for f about the point x = x_0 to order (x - x_0) n. Series[f, {x, x_0, n_x}, {y, y_0, n_y}, ...] successively finds ...

NDSolve Method Plugin Framework (Mathematica Tutorial)

The control mechanisms set up for NDSolve enable you to define your own numerical integration algorithms and use them as specifications for the Method option of NDSolve. ...

Introduction (CUDALink Tutorial)

CUDALink allows Mathematica to use the CUDA parallel computing architecture on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). It contains functions that use CUDA-enabled GPUs to boost ...

Introduction (OpenCLLink Tutorial)

OpenCLLink allows you to use the Mathematica language to query OpenCL system information and execute OpenCL programs using Mathematica. In this section, an overview is ...

ND (Numerical Calculus Package Symbol)

ND[expr, x, x_0] gives a numerical approximation to the derivative of expr with respect to x at the point x_0.ND[expr, {x, n}, x_0] gives a numerical approximation to the ...

ExponentialDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ExponentialDistribution[\[Lambda]] represents an exponential distribution with scale inversely proportional to parameter \[Lambda].