The Padé approximation is a rational function that can be thought of as a generalization of a Taylor polynomial. A rational function is the ratio of polynomials. Because ...

JordanDecomposition[m] yields the Jordan decomposition of a square matrix m. The result is a list {s, j} where s is a similarity matrix and j is the Jordan canonical form of ...

Numerical solution of differential equations. This generates a numerical solution to the equation y^′(x)y(x) with 0<x<2. The result is given in terms of an ...

HoldFirst is an attribute which specifies that the first argument to a function is to be maintained in an unevaluated form.

void Message (char*txt) issues a message from a library function.

AddEventHandler[obj@event, func] assigns the specified Mathematica function func to be called when the given event event fires.

VectorAngle[u, v] gives the angle between the vectors u and v.

DateListPlot[{{date_1, v_1}, {date_2, v_2}, ...}] plots points with values v i at a sequence of dates.DateListPlot[{v_1, v_2, ...}, datespec] plots points with dates at equal ...

All the functionality of NumericalMath`NIntegrateInterpolatingFunct`is now available in the newly created Function Approximations Package.

Widely recognized as the world's most powerful list manipulation language, Mathematica added in Version 6.0 a number of important new functions. Each function was carefully ...