FindCurvePath[{{x_1, y_1}, {x_2, y_2}, ...}] gives an ordering of the {x_i, y_i} that corresponds to one or more smooth curves.

SequenceAlignment[s_1, s_2] finds an optimal alignment of sequences of elements in the strings or lists s_1 and s_2, and yields a list of successive matching and differing ...

MorphologicalPerimeter[image] picks out the morphological perimeter of regions of foreground in image.MorphologicalPerimeter[image, t] treats values above t as foreground.

FindArgMax[f, x] gives the position x_max of a local maximum of f.FindArgMax[f, {x, x_0}] gives the position x_max of a local maximum of f, found by a search starting from ...

FindArgMin[f, x] gives the position x_min of a local minimum of f.FindArgMin[f, {x, x_0}] gives the position x_min of a local minimum of f, found by a search starting from ...

Mathematica always allows you to refer to special characters by using names such as ∖[Alpha] or explicit hexadecimal codes such as ∖:03b1. And when Mathematica writes out ...

Widely recognized as the world's most powerful list manipulation language, Mathematica added in Version 6.0 a number of important new functions. Each function was carefully ...

Packed into functions like Solve and Reduce are a wealth of sophisticated algorithms, many created specifically for Mathematica. Routinely handling both dense and sparse ...

Although Diophantine equations provide classic examples of undecidability, Mathematica in practice succeeds in solving a remarkably wide range of such equations—automatically ...

Mathematica lets you insert function templates that contain placeholders for the arguments of a function. You can do this directly from the keyboard or with several of ...