The notion of expressions is a crucial unifying principle in Mathematica. It is the fact that every object in Mathematica has the same underlying structure that makes it ...
InterpolationOrder is an option for Interpolation, as well as ListLinePlot, ListPlot3D, ListContourPlot, and related functions, that specifies what order of interpolation to ...
Listable is an attribute that can be assigned to a symbol f to indicate that the function f should automatically be threaded over lists that appear as its arguments.
CompilationOptions is an option for Compile that specifies settings for the compilation process.
Mathematica's unified architecture allows every aspect of Mathematica's interface to be controlled and specified programmatically using the symbolic constructs and functions ...
ContourShading is an option for contour plots that specifies how the regions between contour lines should be shaded.
Fit
(Built-in Mathematica Symbol) Fit[data, funs, vars] finds a least-squares fit to a list of data as a linear combination of the functions funs of variables vars.
Functions for creating power series. Here is the power series expansion for exp(x) about the point x0 to order x^4. Here is the series expansion of exp(x) about the point ...
PrincipalComponents[matrix] transforms elements of matrix into unscaled principal components.