Pure functions. When you use functional operations such as Nest and Map, you always have to specify a function to apply. In all the examples above, we have used the "name" of ...

MixtureDistribution[{w_1, ..., w_n}, {dist_1, ..., dist_n}] represents a mixture distribution whose CDF is given as a sum of the CDFs of the component distributions dist_i, ...

FourierSequenceTransform[expr, n, \[Omega]] gives the Fourier sequence transform of expr.FourierSequenceTransform[expr, {n_1, n_2, ...}, {\[Omega]_1, \[Omega]_2, ...}] gives ...

Correlation[v_1, v_2] gives the correlation between the vectors v_1 and v_2.Correlation[m] gives the correlation matrix for the matrix m.Correlation[m_1, m_2] gives the ...

Covariance[v_1, v_2] gives the covariance between the vectors v_1 and v_2.Covariance[m] gives the covariance matrix for the matrix m.Covariance[m_1, m_2] gives the covariance ...

SQLDateTime[datetime] represents date and time information that can be stored in a database.

AbsoluteTime[] gives the total number of seconds since the beginning of January 1, 1900, in your time zone.AbsoluteTime[{y, m, d, h, m, s}] gives the absolute time ...

A Diophantine polynomial system is an expression constructed with polynomial equations and inequalities combined using logical connectives and quantifiers where the variables ...

BetaPrimeDistribution[p, q] represents a beta prime distribution with shape parameters p and q. BetaPrimeDistribution[p, q, \[Beta]] represents a generalized beta prime ...

The shooting method works by considering the boundary conditions as a multivariate function of initial conditions at some point, reducing the boundary value problem to ...