Mathematica allows arbitrary styling of any form of text to be specified either interactively from menus and commands—or programmatically using its powerful symbolic ...

Mathematica can plot parametric functions in both two and three dimensions. Use a parametric plot when you can express the x and y or x , y , and z coordinates at each point ...

Palettes give you immediate access to many features built into Mathematica, from creating syntactically complete expressions and inserting special characters, to building up ...

MIME types: application/fits, image/fits FITS scientific image and data format. Standard format for the exchange and archival storage of astronomical data. Endorsed by NASA ...

Mathematica serialized package format. Used for the distribution of Mathematica packages. Stores arbitrary Mathematica expressions in a serialized format optimized for fast ...

Animator[u] represents an object that displays with the value of u being continually increased from 0 to 1 with time. Animator[u, {u_min, u_max}] makes u vary from u_min to ...

BoxRatios is an option for Graphics3D that gives the ratios of side lengths for the bounding box of the three-dimensional picture.

Break[] exits the nearest enclosing Do, For, or While.

CellDingbat is an option for Cell which specifies what dingbat to use to emphasize a cell.

CellFrameMargins is an option for Cell which specifies the absolute margins in printer's points to leave inside a frame that is drawn around a cell.