$DefaultFont (Obsolete Mathematica Symbol)

As of Version 3, $DefaultFont has been superseded by settings in notebook stylesheets, and as of Version 6 by options such as BaseStyle.

$FormatType (Obsolete Mathematica Symbol)

As of version 6.0, $FormatType has been superseded by explicit settings for FormatType in Graphics and related functions.

$TemporaryPrefix (Obsolete Mathematica Symbol)

As of Mathematica 7.0, $TemporaryPrefix has been superseded by $TemporaryDirectory.

$TextStyle (Obsolete Mathematica Symbol)

As of Version 6.0, $TextStyle has been superseded by BaseStyle and other options.

Linear Algebra in Mathematica: ... (Obsolete Mathematica Tutorial)

ARPACK is a collection of Fortran77 subroutines designed to solve large-scale eigenvalue problems. http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK The ATLAS (Automatically Tuned ...

Introduction to Linear Algebra in ... (Obsolete Mathematica Tutorial)

Mathematica has a broad range of functions to support linear algebra operations and to integrate them into the system. It can work with vectors, matrices, and tensors that ...

Matrix and Tensor Operations (Obsolete Mathematica Tutorial)

This tutorial reviews the functions that Mathematica provides for building and working with matrices, vectors, and tensors. It focuses on functions that are specific to ...

Matrix Computations (Obsolete Mathematica Tutorial)

This tutorial reviews the functions that Mathematica provides for carrying out matrix computations. Further information on these functions can be found in standard ...

Performance of Linear Algebra ... (Obsolete Mathematica Tutorial)

This tutorial covers issues related to performance. One of the challenges of building Mathematica is to make sure that the system is general enough to support symbolic ...

Working with Sparse Arrays (Obsolete Mathematica Tutorial)

Sparse representations of matrices are useful because they do not store every element. If one particular value appears very frequently it can be very advantageous to use a ...