The main equations that Solve and related Mathematica functions deal with are polynomial equations. It is easy to solve a linear equation in  x. One can also solve quadratic ...

DSolve returns a general solution for a problem if no initial or boundary conditions are specified. The general solution to this equation is returned. However, if initial or ...

The Mathematica function DSolve finds symbolic solutions to differential equations. (The Mathematica function NDSolve, on the other hand, is a general numerical differential ...

___(three _characters) or BlankNullSequence[] is a pattern object that can stand for any sequence of zero or more Mathematica expressions. ___h or BlankNullSequence[h] can ...

ChartElementFunction is an option for charting functions such as BarChart that gives a function to use to generate the primitives for rendering each chart element.

Clock[] represents a clock variable whose value cycles continuously from 0 to 1 once per second when it appears inside a dynamically updated object such as a Dynamic. ...

Refresh[expr, opts] represents an object whose value in a Dynamic should be refreshed at times specified by the options opts. Refresh[expr, None] specifies that the value of ...

"Interrupting Calculations" describes how you can interrupt a Mathematica computation by pressing appropriate keys on your keyboard. In some cases, you may want to simulate ...

Mathematica 8 adds major new areas, including probability and statistics, graphs and networks, computational finance, control systems, wavelet analysis, and group theory. ...

BooleanGraph[bfunc, g_1, ..., g_n] gives the Boolean graph defined by the Boolean function bfunc on the graphs g_1, ..., g_n.