ShearingMatrix (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ShearingMatrix[\[Theta], v, n] gives the matrix corresponding to shearing by \[Theta] radians along the direction of the vector v, and normal to the vector n.

ShowAutoStyles (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ShowAutoStyles is an option for Cell that specifies whether styles that are specified to be automatically used for various syntactic and other constructs should be shown.

ShowStringCharacters (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ShowStringCharacters is an option for Cell that specifies whether to display " when a string is entered.

SymbolName (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SymbolName[symbol] gives the name of the specified symbol.

VerticalSlider (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

VerticalSlider[y] represents a vertical slider at position y with range 0 to 1. VerticalSlider[Dynamic[y]] takes the position to be the dynamically updated current value of ...

$KernelCount (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$KernelCount gives the number of subkernels available for parallel computations.

Arbitrary-Precision Numbers (Mathematica Tutorial)

When you do calculations with arbitrary-precision numbers, Mathematica keeps track of precision at all points. In general, Mathematica tries to give you results which have ...

Introduction to Numerical Sums, ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

Numerical sums, products and integrals. Here is a numerical approximation to ∑_(i=1)^∞((1)/(i^3)). NIntegrate can handle singularities in the integration region.

Mathematica Packages (Mathematica Tutorial)

One of the most important features of Mathematica is that it is an extensible system. There is a certain amount of mathematical and other functionality that is built into ...

Rearranging Nested Lists (Mathematica Tutorial)

You will encounter nested lists if you use matrices or generate multidimensional arrays and tables. Mathematica provides many functions for handling such lists. A few ...