The representation of algebraic numbers. When you enter a Root object, the polynomial that appears in it is automatically reduced to a minimal form. This extracts the pure ...

Converting between strings, boxes, and expressions. Here is a simple expression. This gives the InputForm of the expression as a string.

Solving linear first-order ODEs is straightforward and only requires the use of a suitable integrating factor. In sharp contrast, there are a large number of methods ...

To run Mathematica using a network license, both the client machine and the license server must be on the network, and MathLM must be running. If you do not have a MathLM ...

When Mathematica cannot give you an explicit result for an integral, it leaves the integral in a symbolic form. It is often useful to manipulate this symbolic form. ...

The function Flatten allows you to explicitly flatten out all sublists. FlattenAt lets you specify at what positions you want sublists flattened. Sequence objects ...

When you generate a very large output expression in Mathematica, you often do not want to see the whole expression at once. Rather, you would first like to get an idea of the ...

ActivateWindow is an option to DoNETModeless that specifies whether to make the window visible.

FindMaximum[f, x] searches for a local maximum in f, starting from an automatically selected point.FindMaximum[f, {x, x_0}] searches for a local maximum in f, starting from ...

KnotData[knot, " property"] gives the specified property for a knot.KnotData[knot] gives an image of the knot.KnotData["class"] gives a list of knots in the specified class.