Parallelize[expr] evaluates expr using automatic parallelization.

We first encountered lists in "Making Lists of Objects" as a way of collecting numbers together. Here, we shall see many different ways to use lists. You will find that lists ...

Mathematica 8 adds major new areas, including probability and statistics, graphs and networks, computational finance, control systems, wavelet analysis, and group theory. ...

Monte Carlo methods use randomly generated numbers or events to simulate random processes and estimate complicated results. For example, they are used to model financial ...

FactorSquareFreeList[poly] gives a list of square-free factors of a polynomial, together with their exponents.

FinancialBond[params, ambientparams] gives the value of a financial bond instrument.FinancialBond[params, ambientparams, prop] computes the specified property prop.

Sqrt[z] or Sqrt[z] gives the square root of z.

ArrayFlatten[{{m_11, m_12, ...}, {m_21, m_22, ...}, ...}] creates a single flattened matrix from a matrix of matrices m i j. ArrayFlatten[a, r] flattens out r pairs of levels ...

GompertzMakehamDistribution[\[Lambda], \[Xi]] represents a Gompertz distribution with scale parameter \[Lambda] and frailty parameter ...

Checkbox[x] represents a checkbox with setting x, displayed as CheckboxBox[True] when x is True and CheckboxBox[False] when x is False. Checkbox[Dynamic[x]] takes the setting ...