SpheroidalEigenvalue (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SpheroidalEigenvalue[n, m, \[Gamma]] gives the spheroidal eigenvalue with degree n and order m.

StringCount (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

StringCount["string", " sub"] gives a count of the number of times " sub" appears as a substring of " string". StringCount["string", patt] gives the number of substrings in " ...

ToNumberField (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ToNumberField[a, \[Theta]] expresses the algebraic number a in the number field generated by \[Theta]. ToNumberField[{a_1, a_2, ...}, \[Theta]] expresses the a_i in the field ...

UnitVector (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

UnitVector[k] gives the two-dimensional unit vector in the k\[Null]^th direction.UnitVector[n, k] gives the n-dimensional unit vector in the k\[Null]^th direction.

VertexCoverQ (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

VertexCoverQ[g, vlist] yields True if the vertex list vlist is a vertex cover of the graph g, and False otherwise.

VertexQ (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

VertexQ[g, v] yields True if v is a vertex in the graph g and False otherwise.

Activating Mathematica (Mathematica Tutorial)

Once the installation of Mathematica 8 is complete, you will be presented with the Wolfram Product Activation dialog. There are three methods to activate Mathematica: online ...

Defining Output Formats (Mathematica Tutorial)

Just as Mathematica allows you to define how expressions should be evaluated, so also it allows you to define how expressions should be formatted for output. The basic idea ...

Indefinite Integrals (Mathematica Tutorial)

The Mathematica function Integrate[f,x] gives you the indefinite integral ∫f dx. You can think of the operation of indefinite integration as being an inverse of ...

Local Constants (Mathematica Tutorial)

Defining local constants. Module allows you to set up local variables, to which you can assign values and then change them. Often, however, all you really need are local ...