The mathematical operations we have discussed so far are exact. Given precise input, their results are exact formulas. In many situations, however, you do not need an exact ...

Exact global optimization problems can be solved exactly using Minimize and Maximize. This computes the radius of the circle, centered at the origin, circumscribed about the ...

The Mathematica function NDSolve is a general numerical differential equation solver. It can handle a wide range of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) as well as some ...

Whether it is for importing, exporting, or other operations, Mathematica must know where to look for files on your computer before it can use them. There are a number of ...

SequenceAlignment[s_1, s_2] finds an optimal alignment of sequences of elements in the strings or lists s_1 and s_2, and yields a list of successive matching and differing ...

When you write down a set of simultaneous equations in Mathematica, you are specifying a collection of constraints between variables. When you use Solve, you are finding ...

Maximize[f, x] maximizes f with respect to x.Maximize[f, {x, y, ...}] maximizes f with respect to x, y, .... Maximize[{f, cons}, {x, y, ...}] maximizes f subject to the ...

CensoredDistribution[{x_min, x_max}, dist] represents the distribution of values that come from dist and are censored to be between x_min and ...

FixedPoint[f, expr] starts with expr, then applies f repeatedly until the result no longer changes.

When searching for a real simple root of a real valued function, it is possible to take advantage of the special geometry of the problem, where the function crosses the axis ...