New function BesselJZero has been added to the built-in Mathematica kernel. New function BesselYZero has been added to the built-in Mathematica kernel. ...

Mathematica normally takes any expression it is given, and evaluates it as far as possible. But built into the Mathematica language is a collection of flexible primitives ...

HoldRest is an attribute which specifies that all but the first argument to a function are to be maintained in an unevaluated form.

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 ...

AutoloadPath is a global option that specifies from which directories packages are automatically loaded when Mathematica is started.

SystemHelpPath is a global option that specifies which directories are searched for the help notebooks used within the help system.

Mathematica 8 provides functions that allow developers to implement file format converters to be integrated with the Mathematica Import and Export framework. You can ...

Default[f] gives the default value for arguments of the function f obtained with a _. pattern object. Default[f, i] gives the default value to use when _. appears as the ...

void MTensor_disownAll (MTensor t) disowns all references to an MTensor that was passed between a library function and Mathematica using shared memory management.

void MTensor_disown (MTensor t) disowns a reference to an MTensor that was passed between a library function and Mathematica using shared memory management.