Many of the most powerful list manipulation operations in Mathematica treat whole lists as single objects. Sometimes, however, you need to pick out or set individual elements ...

If you use the notebook front end for Mathematica, then you can enter some of the operations discussed here in special ways. Special and ordinary ways to enter mathematical ...

Mathematica allows you to define transformation rules for any expression. You can define such rules not only for functions that you add to Mathematica, but also for intrinsic ...

Functions for rearranging lists. This sorts the elements of a list into a standard order. In simple cases like this, the order is alphabetical or numerical. This sorts the ...

MathLink allows you to run external programs under whatever debugger is provided in your software environment. MathLink-compatible programs are typically set up to take ...

Simplifying expressions. Mathematica does not automatically simplify an algebraic expression like this. Simplify performs the simplification.

Type a left parenthesis and a right parenthesis, then move the insertion point to be between them. Type (), and press ←. Type the first entry of the vector. Create the next ...

Launching Java, InstallJava -- launch the Java runtime and prepare it for use from Mathematica, ReinstallJava -- quit and restart the Java runtime, UninstallJava -- quit the ...

DoModal[] does not return until the Java side sends an expression of the form EvaluatePacket[EndModal[args]].

ReleaseJavaObject[javaobject] tells the Java memory-management system to forget about any references to the specified JavaObject that are being maintained solely for the sake ...