Specifying formats for text in graphics. Here is a plot with default settings for all formats. Here is the same plot, but now using a 12-point bold font.

Ways to get pieces of matrices. Matrices in Mathematica are represented as lists of lists. You can use all the standard Mathematica list-manipulation operations on matrices. ...

With the Text graphics primitive, you can insert text at any position in two- or three-dimensional Mathematica graphics. Unless you explicitly specify a style or font using ...

Importing and exporting lists and tables of data. This exports a list of data to the file out1. Here are the contents of the file.

You can give Solve a list of simultaneous equations to solve. Solve can find explicit solutions for a large class of simultaneous polynomial equations. Here is a simple ...

For ordinary polynomials, Factor and Expand give the most important forms. For rational expressions, there are many different forms that can be useful. Different kinds of ...

The hierarchy of levels at which options can be set. Here is a notebook containing three cells. This is what happens when the setting CellFrame->True is made specifically for ...

The raw SQL command SELECT selects and returns data from a database. An alternative is to use the Mathematica command SQLSelect, described in "Selecting Data". If you find ...

"TemplateSelection" is a front end token that inserts a function template to the right of the insertion point.

InverseChiSquareDistribution[\[Nu]] represents an inverse \[Chi]^2 distribution with \[Nu] degrees of freedom.InverseChiSquareDistribution[\[Nu], \[Xi]] represents a scaled ...