Logical and Piecewise Functions (Mathematica Tutorial)

Nested logical and piecewise functions can be expanded out much like nested arithmetic functions. You can do this using LogicalExpand and PiecewiseExpand. Expanding out ...

The Structure of Cells (Mathematica Tutorial)

Expressions corresponding to cells. Here is a notebook containing a text cell and a Mathematica input cell. Here are the expressions corresponding to these cells.

Decrement (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

x-- decreases the value of x by 1, returning the old value of x.

Increment (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

x++ increases the value of x by 1, returning the old value of x.

MapIndexed (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

MapIndexed[f, expr] applies f to the elements of expr, giving the part specification of each element as a second argument to f. MapIndexed[f, expr, levelspec] applies f to ...

PreDecrement (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

--x decreases the value of x by 1, returning the new value of x.

Newlines and Tabs in Strings (Mathematica Tutorial)

Explicit representations of newlines and tabs in strings. This prints on two lines. In InputForm there is an explicit ∖n to represent the newline.

Setting Up Hyperlinks (Mathematica Tutorial)

Methods for generating hyperlinks. A hyperlink is a special kind of button which jumps to another part of a notebook when it is pressed. Typically hyperlinks are indicated in ...

Testing and Searching List Elements (Mathematica Tutorial)

Testing and searching for elements of lists. "Getting Pieces of Lists" discusses how to extract pieces of lists based on their positions or indices. Mathematica also has ...

Fold (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Fold[f, x, list] gives the last element of FoldList[f, x, list].