$Messages (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$Messages gives the list of files and pipes to which message output is sent.

Keyboard Shortcut Listing (Mathematica Tutorial)

Documentation Center navigation shortcuts. Window cycling shortcuts. Scrolling shortcuts.

Selecting Parts of Expressions with ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

"Manipulating Elements of Lists" shows how you can pick out elements of lists based on their positions. Often, however, you will need to select elements based not on where ...

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 ...

DateListLogPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DateListLogPlot[{{date_1, v_1}, {date_2, v_2}, ...}] makes a log plot with values v_i at a sequence of dates.DateListLogPlot[{v_1, v_2, ...}, datespec] makes a log plot with ...

PopupMenu (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

PopupMenu[x, {val_1, val_2, ...}] represents a popup menu with setting x and possible values val_i. PopupMenu[Dynamic[x], {val_1, ...}] takes the setting to be the ...

StringJoin (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

"s_1" <> "s_2" <> ..., StringJoin["s_1", "s_2", ...], or StringJoin[{"s_1", "s_2", ...}] yields a string consisting of a concatenation of the s_i.

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 ...

FileNames (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FileNames[] lists all files in the current working directory. FileNames[form] lists all files in the current working directory whose names match the string pattern form. ...

Make a Table (Mathematica How To)

In Mathematica , many kinds of data are stored in tables or lists. Mathematica provides many useful functions for creating and manipulating these tables.