Concurrency: Managing Parallel Processes (Parallel Package Tutorial)

A process is simply a Mathematica expression being evaluated. A processor is a parallel kernel that performs such evaluations. The command ParallelEvaluate discussed in the ...

ListLineIntegralConvolutionPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ListLineIntegralConvolutionPlot[{array, image}] generates a line integral convolution plot of image convolved with the vector field defined by an array of vector field ...

Creating a Library (C Compiler Driver Package Tutorial)

The CCompilerDriver Package lets you work with C compilers that are installed on your computer. It is used automatically by the Mathematica compiler when you set the option ...

EvaluationMonitor (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

EvaluationMonitor is an option for various numerical computation and plotting functions that gives an expression to evaluate whenever functions derived from the input are ...

VectorPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

VectorPlot[{v_x, v_y}, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, y_max}] generates a vector plot of the vector field {v_x, v_y} as a function of x and y. VectorPlot[{{v_x, v_y}, {w_x, ...

Global System Information (Mathematica Tutorial)

In order to write the most general Mathematica programs you will sometimes need to find out global information about the setup under which your program is being run. Thus, ...

WaveletBestBasis (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

WaveletBestBasis[dwd] computes a best basis representation in the DiscreteWaveletData object dwd.WaveletBestBasis[dwd, cspec] computes a best basis representation using the ...

Notation, Symbolize and InfixNotation (Notation Package Tutorial)

Syntax of notation declarations. Notation takes both an external representation and an internal representation as arguments. Mathematica translates any input matching the ...

HistogramDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

HistogramDistribution[{x_1, x_2, ...}] represents the probability distribution corresponding to a histogram of the data values x_i.HistogramDistribution[{{x_1, y_1, ...}, ...

NIntegrate Integration Strategies (Mathematica Tutorial)

An integration strategy is an algorithm that attempts to compute integral estimates that satisfy user-specified precision or accuracy goals. An integration strategy normally ...