Integrals That Can and Cannot Be Done (Mathematica Tutorial)

Evaluating integrals is much more difficult than evaluating derivatives. For derivatives, there is a systematic procedure based on the chain rule that effectively allows any ...

Launching Mathematica on Linux (Mathematica Tutorial)

To run Mathematica using a network license, both the client machine and the license server must be on the network and MathLM must be running. If you do not have a MathLM ...

Using Symbols to Tag Objects (Mathematica Tutorial)

There are many ways to use symbols in Mathematica. Here we use symbols as 'tags' for different types of objects. Working with physical units gives one simple example. When ...

Java User Interfaces (JLink Guide)

DoModal -- wait until the Java window is closed, JavaShow -- make a window visible and in front, ShowJavaConsole -- display System.out and System.err output in a separate ...

C Functions (SymbolicC Tutorial)

SymbolicC supports working with C functions, as described in this section. First, you need to load the package. Now, you can create a C function with CFunction.

RIB (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

RenderMan RIB user entity file. 3D geometry format. Used for photorealistic modeling and rendering. Stores 3D object definitions and scene descriptions. Native format of the ...

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).

Ordering (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Ordering[list] gives the positions in list at which each successive element of Sort[list] appears. Ordering[list, n] gives the positions in list at which the first n elements ...

Or (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

e_1 || e_2 || ... is the logical OR function. It evaluates its arguments in order, giving True immediately if any of them are True, and False if they are all False.

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.