Numerical Optimization (Mathematica Tutorial)

Searching for local minima and maxima. This finds the value of x which minimizes Γ(x), starting at x2. The last element of the list gives the value at which the minimum is ...

Options for Notebooks (Mathematica Tutorial)

Ways to change the overall options for a notebook. This creates a notebook displayed in a 40×30 window with a thin frame. Style options for a notebook.

String-Oriented Output Formats (Mathematica Tutorial)

Text strings. The quotes are not included in standard Mathematica output form. In input form, the quotes are included.

StringCases (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

StringCases["string", patt] gives a list of the substrings in " string" that match the string expression patt. StringCases["string", lhs -> rhs] gives a list of the values of ...

Cycles (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Cycles[{cyc_1, cyc_2, ...}] represents a permutation with disjoint cycles cyc_i.

International Character Sets (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica supports full Unicode throughout—in strings, symbols, graphics and external operations—allowing immediate streamlined use of all standard international character ...

Use Function Templates (Mathematica How To)

Mathematica lets you insert function templates that contain placeholders for the arguments of a function. You can do this directly from the keyboard or with several of ...

BetweennessCentrality (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

BetweennessCentrality[g] gives a list of betweenness centralities for the vertices in the graph g.

DerivativeFilter (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DerivativeFilter[image, {n_1, n_2}] computes the n_i\[Null]^th derivative of image in the vertical and horizontal directions.DerivativeFilter[image, {n_1, n_2}, \[Sigma]] ...

DistributionParameterQ (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DistributionParameterQ[dist] yields True if dist is a valid distribution, and yields False otherwise.