Introduction (Compiled Function Tools Tutorial)

The Mathematica compiler provides an important way both to speed up and also to work with Mathematica computations. It does this by taking assumptions about the computations ...

MathLink Development in C (Mac OS X) (Mathematica Tutorial)

This document describes how to compile and run MathLink programs written in the C language on Mac OS X systems. ("MathLink and External Program Communication" describes how ...

Introduction to Unconstrained ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica has a collection of commands that do unconstrained optimization (FindMinimum and FindMaximum) and solve nonlinear equations (FindRoot) and nonlinear fitting ...

Specifying Derivatives (Mathematica Tutorial)

The function FindRoot has a Jacobian option; the functions FindMinimum, FindMaximum, and FindFit have a Gradient option; and the "Newton" method has a method option Hessian. ...

Test Problems (Mathematica Tutorial)

All the test problems presented in [MGH81] have been coded into Mathematica in the Optimization`UnconstrainedProblems` package. A data structure is used so that the problems ...

Trust Region Methods (Mathematica Tutorial)

A trust region method has a region around the current search point, where the quadratic model for "local minimization" is "trusted" to be correct and steps are chosen to stay ...

SQLColumnInformation (DatabaseLink Symbol)

SQLColumnInformation[conn] returns a list of information about the columns in an SQL connection.

SQLExecute (DatabaseLink Symbol)

SQLExecute[conn, command] executes a command in an SQL connection.SQLExecute[conn, command, args] passes arguments to the command.

Table Structure (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

This section discusses commands that get information about database tables. If you find that the examples in this section do not work as shown, you may need to install or ...

J/Link User Guide (JLink Overview)

Introduction to J/Link Calling Java from Mathematica Writing Java Programs That Use Mathematica