Tuning & Debugging (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica's highly optimized architecture makes it easy to create programs that are both elegant and efficient. Its symbolic character lets you immediately run and test ...

Using a Notebook Interface (Mathematica Tutorial)

If you use your computer via a purely graphical interface, you will typically double-click the Mathematica icon to start Mathematica. If you use your computer via a textually ...

Animator (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Animator[u] represents an object that displays with the value of u being continually increased from 0 to 1 with time. Animator[u, {u_min, u_max}] makes u vary from u_min to ...

ImageSize (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ImageSize is an option that specifies the overall size of an image to display for an object.

Doing Computations in Notebooks (Mathematica Tutorial)

A typical Mathematica notebook containing text, graphics, and Mathematica expressions. The brackets on the right indicate the extent of each cell. Mathematica notebooks are ...

Coordinate Systems for ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

Whenever Mathematica draws a three-dimensional object, it always effectively puts a cuboidal box around the object. With the default option setting Boxed->True, Mathematica ...

Mathematica Scripts (Mathematica Tutorial)

A Mathematica script is simply a file containing Mathematica commands that you would normally evaluate sequentially in a Mathematica session. Writing a script is useful if ...

Import (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Import["file"] imports data from a file, returning a complete Mathematica version of it. Import["file", elements] imports the specified elements from a file.Import["http:// ...

Options for Expression Input and Output (Mathematica Tutorial)

Options associated with the interactive entering of expressions. The option SingleLetterItalics is typically set whenever a cell uses TraditionalForm. Here is an expression ...

Introduction to Dynamic (Mathematica Tutorial)

This tutorial describes the principles behind Dynamic, DynamicModule, and related functions, and goes into detail about how they interact with each other and with the rest of ...