Mathematica stores preference settings and initialization data in two directories, $BaseDirectory and $UserBaseDirectory. Within each of these directories are several ...

With its core symbolic paradigm and immediate access to sophisticated numerical, symbolic and geometric algorithms, Mathematica is able to provide a uniquely flexible and ...

An important subset of optimization problems is constrained nonlinear optimization, where the function is not linear and the parameter values are constrained to certain ...

NestWhile[f, expr, test] starts with expr, then repeatedly applies f until applying test to the result no longer yields True. NestWhile[f, expr, test, m] supplies the most ...

MeshFunctions is an option for plotting functions that specifies functions to use to determine the placement of mesh divisions.

PermutationOrder[perm] gives the order of permutation perm.

FourierDCT[list] finds the Fourier discrete cosine transform of a list of real numbers.FourierDCT[list, m] finds the Fourier discrete cosine transform of type m.

LogGammaDistribution[\[Alpha], \[Beta], \[Mu]] represents a log-gamma distribution with shape parameters \[Alpha] and \[Beta] and location parameter \[Mu].

MultiplicativeOrder[k, n] gives the multiplicative order of k modulo n, defined as the smallest integer m such that k^m \[Congruent] 1 mod n. MultiplicativeOrder[k, n, {r_1, ...

NumberFieldIntegralBasis[a] gives an integral basis for the field \[DoubleStruckCapitalQ][a] generated by the algebraic number a.