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 ...

Mathematica has long set the standard for high-end technical graphics and visualization. Version 6.0 added many innovative options that brought automated aesthetics to a new ...

Version 8.0 introduces new features to load functions from shared libraries, giving a new way to incorporate external code into Mathematica. It also adds support for GPU ...

Building large software systems in Mathematica should follow the general principles that apply to building any large software system. The details may be unique to Mathematica ...

There are a number of important interactions in Mathematica between evaluation and pattern matching. The first observation is that pattern matching is usually done on ...

Functions for manipulating files. Different operating systems have different commands for manipulating files. Mathematica provides a simple set of file manipulation ...

Converting between numbers and lists or strings of digits. Here is the list of base 16 digits for an integer. This gives a list of digits, together with the number of digits ...

Ordering in lists. Here is a list of numbers. This gives the elements of t in sorted order.

Converting between strings and lists of characters. This gives a list of the characters in the string. You can apply standard list manipulation operations to this list.

VertexInComponent[g, {v_1, v_2, ...}] gives the vertices in the graph g that have a directed path to at least one of v_1, v_2, ....VertexInComponent[g, {v_1, v_2, ...}, k] ...