Finding Limits (Mathematica Tutorial)

In doing many kinds of calculations, you need to evaluate expressions when variables take on particular values. In many cases, you can do this simply by applying ...

Create Lists (Mathematica How To)

Lists are very important and general structures in Mathematica. They allow you to treat collections of all kinds of objects as a single entity. There are many ways to ...

CompilationOptions (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

CompilationOptions is an option for Compile that specifies settings for the compilation process.

Making Power Series Expansions (Mathematica Tutorial)

Functions for creating power series. Here is the power series expansion for exp(x) about the point x0 to order x^4. Here is the series expansion of exp(x) about the point ...

The Meaning of Expressions (Mathematica Tutorial)

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 ...

Help > Find Selected Function (Mathematica Menu Item)

Find Selected Function opens documentation about the selected function.

DistributedContexts (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DistributedContexts is an option for various parallel computing functions that specifies which definitions for symbols appearing in an expression should be distributed to all ...

$DistributedContexts (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$DistributedContexts is the default value of the DistributedContexts option of functions such as ParallelTable and ParallelMap.

LibraryFunctionInformation (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

LibraryFunctionInformation[fun] returns information about a LibraryFunction.

Power Series (Mathematica Tutorial)

The mathematical operations we have discussed so far are exact. Given precise input, their results are exact formulas. In many situations, however, you do not need an exact ...