Differentiating a known function gives an explicit result. Differentiating an unknown function f gives a result in terms of f'. Mathematica applies the chain rule for ...

When you see a two-dimensional expression on the screen, you can edit it much as you would edit text. You can for example place your cursor somewhere and start typing. Or you ...

When you execute a command like NotebookWrite[obj,data] the actual operation of inserting data into your notebook is performed in the front end. Normally, however, the kernel ...

The standard set of messages for built-in Mathematica functions are written in American English. In some versions of Mathematica, messages are also available in other ...

To run Mathematica using a network license, both the client machine and the license server must be on the network and MathLM must be running. If you do not have a MathLM ...

DatabaseExplorer[] launches a graphical user interface to DatabaseLink.

Numerical integration functions. This finds a numerical approximation to the integral ∫_(0)^∞ e^-x^3 x. Here is the numerical value of the double integral ∫_(-1)^1 dx ...

EconomizedRationalApproximation[expr, {x, {x_0, x_1}, m, n}] gives the economized rational approximation to expr that is good over the interval x_0 to x_1, with numerator ...

Finding and setting values of symbols. Mathematica effectively stores all definitions you give as lists of transformation rules. When a particular symbol is encountered, the ...

ExponentialDistribution[\[Lambda]] represents an exponential distribution with scale inversely proportional to parameter \[Lambda].