UpperTriangularize (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

UpperTriangularize[m] gives a matrix in which all but the upper triangular elements of m are replaced with zeros. UpperTriangularize[m, k] replaces with zeros only the ...

AbsoluteThickness (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

AbsoluteThickness[d] is a graphics directive which specifies that lines which follow are to be drawn with absolute thickness d.

VectorColorFunction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

VectorColorFunction is an option for VectorPlot and related functions which specifies a function to apply to determine colors of field vectors drawn.

DiscretePlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DiscretePlot[expr, {n, n_max}] generates a plot of the values of expr when n runs from 1 to n_max.DiscretePlot[expr, {n, n_min, n_max}] generates a plot of the values of expr ...

Concurrency (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica provides not only automatic parallelization capabilities, but also a full built-in symbolic language for specifying concurrent computation.

FindThreshold (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindThreshold[image] finds a global threshold value that partitions the intensity values in image into two intervals.

ImageDeconvolve (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ImageDeconvolve[image, ker] gives a deconvolution of image using kernel ker.

Monitoring and Selecting Algorithms (Mathematica Tutorial)

Functions in Mathematica are carefully set up so that you normally do not have to know how they work inside. But particularly for numerical functions that use iterative ...

StiffnessSwitching Method for NDSolve (Mathematica Tutorial)

The basic idea behind the "StiffnessSwitching" method is to provide an automatic means of switching between a nonstiff and a stiff solver. The "StiffnessTest" and ...

TIGER (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

TIGER/Line GIS file format. U.S. Census Bureau file format. Used for archiving cartographic information and data. Stores geometric as well as numerical and textual ...