For minimization problems for which the objective function is a sum of squares, it is often advantageous to use the special structure of the problem. Time and effort can be ...

Prime[n] gives the n\[Null]^th prime number.

StirlingS2[n, m] gives the Stirling number of the second kind \[ScriptCapitalS]_n^(m).

There are a number of important interactions in Mathematica between evaluation and pattern matching. The first observation is that pattern matching is usually done on ...

Sometimes you may want to set up functions where certain arguments, if omitted, are given "default values". The pattern x_:v stands for an object that can be omitted, and if ...

SphericalPlot3D[r, \[Theta], \[Phi]] generates a 3D plot with a spherical radius r as a function of spherical coordinates \[Theta] and \[Phi].SphericalPlot3D[r, {\[Theta], ...

The built-in function Reduce provides the functionality previously found in Algebra`InequalitySolve`.

Just as normal and stable distributions are natural limit distributions when considering linear combinations such as means of independent variables, extreme value ...

If you have special-purpose programs written in C or Fortran, you may want to take formulas you have generated in Mathematica and insert them into the source code of your ...

VonMisesDistribution[\[Mu], \[Kappa]] represents a von Mises distribution with mean \[Mu] and concentration \[Kappa].