Security and Authentication (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

Many SQL databases can be configured to require a username and password when a connection is made. This is useful for preventing unwanted access and restricting the range of ...

DOT (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

DOT graph language and data format. Commonly used exchange format for graphs. Stores a single attributed, directed, or undirected graph. Can contain user-defined graph, edge, ...

Animator (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Animator[u] represents an object that displays with the value of u being continually increased from 0 to 1 with time. Animator[u, {u_min, u_max}] makes u vary from u_min to ...

Transforming XML (XML Package Tutorial)

Mathematica is uniquely suited for processing symbolic expressions because of its powerful pattern-matching abilities and large collection of built-in structural manipulation ...

FindMinimum (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindMinimum[f, x] searches for a local minimum in f, starting from an automatically selected point.FindMinimum[f, {x, x_0}] searches for a local minimum in f, starting from ...

Benchmarking Package (Benchmarking Package Tutorial)

This package contains functions for measuring the performance of Mathematica on your computer and for producing a comparison report that includes benchmark results for other ...

DictionaryLookup (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DictionaryLookup[patt] finds all words in an English dictionary that match the string pattern patt.DictionaryLookup[patt, n] gives only the first n words ...

FindMaximum (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindMaximum[f, x] searches for a local maximum in f, starting from an automatically selected point.FindMaximum[f, {x, x_0}] searches for a local maximum in f, starting from ...

Some Notes on Internal Implementation (Mathematica Tutorial)

General issues about the internal implementation of Mathematica are discussed in "The Internals of Mathematica". Given here are brief notes on particular features. These ...

SlideView (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SlideView[{expr_1, expr_2, ...}] represents an object in which the expr_i are set up to be displayed on successive slides. SlideView[{expr_1, expr_2, ...}, i] makes the ...