New in 7.0: Data Manipulation (Mathematica Guide)

Building on Mathematica's unified symbolic architecture, Mathematica 7 introduces several major new integrated forms of data manipulation—including large-scale support for ...

Basic Internal Architecture (Mathematica Tutorial)

Internal representations used by Mathematica. When you type input into Mathematica, a data structure is created in the memory of your computer to represent the expression you ...

Reducing Expressions to Their Standard ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

The built-in functions in Mathematica operate in a wide variety of ways. But many of the mathematical functions share an important approach: they are set up so as to reduce ...

The Limits of Mathematica (Mathematica Tutorial)

In just one Mathematica command, you can easily specify a calculation that is far too complicated for any computer to do. For example, you could ask for ...

$SharedFunctions (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$SharedFunctions is the list of functions currently being shared among parallel kernels.

$SharedVariables (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$SharedVariables is the list of variables currently being shared among parallel kernels.

CDF (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

MIME types: application/vnd.wolfram.cdf, application/vnd.wolfram.cdf.text Wolfram Computable Document Format (CDF). Used as a deployment format for interactive output to ...

RuntimeOptions (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

RuntimeOptions is an option for Compile that specifies runtime settings for the compiled function it creates.

$CompilationTarget (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$CompilationTarget gives the default value for the option CompilationTarget of Compile.

MapThread (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

MapThread[f, {{a_1, a_2, ...}, {b_1, b_2, ...}, ...}] gives {f[a_1, b_1, ...], f[a_2, b_2, ...], ...}. MapThread[f, {expr_1, expr_2, ...}, n] applies f to the parts of the ...