HoldAll (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

HoldAll is an attribute which specifies that all arguments to a function are to be maintained in an unevaluated form.

Work with Sparse Matrices (Mathematica How To)

Sparse representations of matrices are useful because they do not store every element. If one particular value appears very frequently it can be very advantageous to use a ...

Put Headings in a Table (Mathematica How To)

Mathematica provides great flexibility for displaying and styling headings in a table. You can use Prepend or ArrayFlatten to add headings to rows and columns and then use ...

GeoProjectionData (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

GeoProjectionData["projection", " property"] gives the value of the specified property for the specified cartographic projection.GeoProjectionData["projection"] gives the ...

SetSharedFunction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SetSharedFunction[f_1, f_2, ...] declares the symbols f_i as shared functions whose downvalues are synchronized among all parallel kernels.

Clean Up Data Imported from a Website (Mathematica How To)

The connectivity and data-processing capabilities of Mathematica make it ideal for importing and analyzing data displayed on a website. In most cases, this is relatively ...

String Representation of Boxes (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica provides a compact way of representing boxes in terms of strings. This is particularly convenient when you want to import or export specifications of boxes as ...

CayleyGraph (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

CayleyGraph[group] returns a Cayley graph representation of group.

ChartElementFunction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

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.

Cellular Automata (Mathematica Tutorial)

Cellular automata provide a convenient way to represent many kinds of systems in which the values of cells in an array are updated in discrete steps according to a local ...