Controlling the Precision of Results (Mathematica Tutorial)

In doing numerical operations like NDSolve and NMinimize, Mathematica by default uses machine numbers. But by setting the option WorkingPrecision->n you can tell it to use ...

The Software Engineering of Mathematica (Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica is one of the more complex software systems ever constructed. It is built from several million lines of source code, written in C/C++, Java and Mathematica. The C ...

Listable (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Listable is an attribute that can be assigned to a symbol f to indicate that the function f should automatically be threaded over lists that appear as its arguments.

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 ...

AppellF1 (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

AppellF1[a, b_1, b_2, c, x, y] is the Appell hypergeometric function of two variables F_1 (a; b_1, b_2; c; x, y).

PermutationList (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

PermutationList[perm] returns a permutation list representation of permutation perm.PermutationList[perm, len] returns a permutation list of length len.

ToString (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ToString[expr] gives a string corresponding to the printed form of expr in OutputForm. ToString[expr, form] gives the string corresponding to output in the specified form.

Calculate Basic Descriptive Statistics (Mathematica How To)

Mathematica has many powerful features, to handle a wide range of statistical needs. Some of the most elementary are outlined below.

Work with Variables and Functions (Mathematica How To)

Variables and functions are integral to Mathematica 's symbolic programming language. These "How tos" give step-by-step instructions for common tasks related to variables, ...

GroupOrder (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

GroupOrder[group] returns the number of elements of group.