Gather (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Gather[list] gathers the elements of list into sublists of identical elements.Gather[list, test] applies test to pairs of elements to determine if they should be considered ...

Numerical Optimization (Mathematica Tutorial)

Searching for local minima and maxima. This finds the value of x which minimizes Γ(x), starting at x2. The last element of the list gives the value at which the minimum is ...

Resolve (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Resolve[expr] attempts to resolve expr into a form that eliminates ForAll and Exists quantifiers. Resolve[expr, dom] works over the domain dom. Common choices of dom are ...

NMaximize (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

NMaximize[f, x] maximizes f numerically with respect to x.NMaximize[f, {x, y, ...}] maximizes f numerically with respect to x, y, .... NMaximize[{f, cons}, {x, y, ...}] ...

HazardFunction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

HazardFunction[dist, x] gives the hazard function for the symbolic distribution dist evaluated at x.HazardFunction[dist, {x_1, x_2, ...}] gives the multivariate hazard ...

Sinc (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Sinc[z] gives sinc(z).

ArcTanh (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ArcTanh[z] gives the inverse hyperbolic tangent tanh -1 (z) of the complex number z.

Summary of New Features in Mathematica 8 (Mathematica Guide)

Log (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Log[z] gives the natural logarithm of z (logarithm to base e). Log[b, z] gives the logarithm to base b.

Testing Expressions (Mathematica Guide)

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