Mathematica 8 adds major new areas, including probability and statistics, graphs and networks, computational finance, control systems, wavelet analysis, and group theory. ...

Mathematica expressions provide a very general way to handle all kinds of data, and you may sometimes want to use such expressions inside your external programs. A language ...

MathLink connections between Mathematica sessions. This starts up a link on port number 8000. This connects to the link on port 8000.

While you can programmatically create two-dimensional layouts, the Mathematica front end provides convenient tools for creating and editing two-dimensional grids of data, in ...

MathLink provides a mechanism through which programs can interact with Mathematica. Some typical uses of MathLink. MathLink provides a general interface for external programs ...

Packing a large number of sophisticated algorithms—many recent and original—into a powerful collection of functions, Mathematica draws on almost every major result in number ...

A core activity in exploratory experimental mathematics is recognition of numbers: going backward from a number to find out how it can be generated. Mathematica provides ...

While the default settings for plots created in Mathematica are sufficient in most cases, nearly every aspect of plots is customizable. In addition to letting you change the ...

Built into Mathematica are state-of-the-art constrained nonlinear fitting capabilities, conveniently accessed with models given directly in symbolic form. Mathematica also ...

Customization is an important part of Mathematica 's extensive data visualization capabilities. While the default settings for displaying points in a plot are suitable in ...