This section includes reference material on SymbolicC functionality. C expressions. Grouping constructs to hold entire statements.

Take[list, n] gives the first n elements of list. Take[list, -n] gives the last n elements of list. Take[list, {m, n}] gives elements m through n of list. Take[list, seq_1, ...

Many programs you write will involve operations that need to be iterated several times. Nest and NestList are powerful constructs for doing this. Applying functions of one ...

Modules in Mathematica allow you to treat the names of variables as local. Sometimes, however, you want the names to be global, but values to be local. You can do this in ...

Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. The eigenvalues of a matrix m are the values λ_i for which one can find nonzero vectors v_i such that m.v_i λ_iv_i. The eigenvectors are the ...

Functions for creating power series. Here is the power series expansion for exp(x) about the point x0 to order x^4. Here is the series expansion of exp(x) about the point ...

Functionality in this package has been added to the built-in Mathematica kernel. CumulativeSums is replaced by Accumulate. Frequencies is replaced by Tally. BinCounts and ...

Convergents[list] gives a list of the convergents corresponding to the continued fraction terms list.Convergents[x, n] gives the first n convergents for a number ...

<< name reads in a file, evaluating each expression in it, and returning the last one.

GridBox[{{box_11, box_12, ...}, {box_21, box_22, ...}, ...}] is a low-level box construct that represents a two-dimensional grid of boxes or strings in notebook expressions.