Work with Lists (Mathematica How To)

Lists are at the core of Mathematica 's symbolic language. These "How tos" give step-by-step instructions for common tasks related to creating and manipulating lists.

MathLink API (Mathematica Guide)

Extensively used within the Mathematica system itself, MathLink is Mathematica's unique high-level symbolic interface standard for interprogram communication. With convenient ...

Introduction to Patterns (Mathematica Tutorial)

Patterns are used throughout Mathematica to represent classes of expressions. A simple example of a pattern is the expression f[x_]. This pattern represents the class of ...

StirlingS2 (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

StirlingS2[n, m] gives the Stirling number of the second kind \[ScriptCapitalS]_n^(m).

RealDigits (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

RealDigits[x] gives a list of the digits in the approximate real number x, together with the number of digits that are to the left of the decimal point. RealDigits[x, b] ...

Curve Fitting (Mathematica Tutorial)

There are many situations where one wants to find a formula that best fits a given set of data. One way to do this in Mathematica is to use Fit. Basic linear fitting. Here is ...

Reference (CUDALink Tutorial)

CUDALink allows Mathematica to use the CUDA parallel computing architecture on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). It contains functions that use CUDA-enabled GPUs to boost ...

InitializationGroup (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

InitializationGroup is an option for the first cell of a cell group that specifies whether the group should be tagged to be evaluated by the Mathematica kernel when the ...

Complex Numbers (Mathematica Tutorial)

You can enter complex numbers in Mathematica just by including the constant I, equal to Sqrt[-1]. Make sure that you type a capital I. If you are using notebooks, you can ...

Erf (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Erf[z] gives the error function erf(z). Erf[z_0, z_1] gives the generalized error function erf(z_1) - erf(z_0).