The following simple commands allow you to test the installation of Mathematica. Running these commands does not guarantee that the installation was successful, but a failed ...

Mathematica has many ways to plot functions and data. It automates many details of plotting such as sample rate, aesthetic choices, and focusing on the region of interest. ...

When you generate a very large output expression in Mathematica, you often do not want to see the whole expression at once. Rather, you would first like to get an idea of the ...

EnterExpressionPacket[expr] is a MathLink packet that requests the evaluation of expr.

EnterTextPacket[string] is a MathLink packet that requests the parsing and evaluation of string as an expression.

EvaluatePacket[expr] is a MathLink packet requesting evaluation of expr.

Mathematica's unified symbolic architecture allows immediate generalization of part-oriented list operations to arbitrary expressions —supporting operations both on ...

A Mathematica script is simply a file containing Mathematica commands that you would normally evaluate sequentially in a Mathematica session. Writing a script is useful if ...

Mathematica can efficiently handle both univariate and multivariate rational functions, with built-in functions immediately implementing standard algebraic transformations.

$BaseDirectory gives the base directory in which systemwide files to be loaded by Mathematica are conventionally placed.