GUI Lifecycles (GUIKit Package Tutorial)

Normally a live GUIObject instance will shut down and dispose of itself through the normal user action of closing a window or other interface widget that performs the ...

Work with Statistical Distributions (Mathematica How To)

Statistical distributions have applications in many fields, including the biological, social, and physical sciences. Mathematica represents statistical distributions as ...

GXL (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

GXL graph data format. Used for the storage and exchange of graphs. GXL is an acronym derived from Graph Exchange Language. XML-based format. Represents typed, attributed, ...

JPEG (Mathematica Import/Export Format)

MIME type: image/jpeg JPEG raster image and compression format. Commonly used for photographic images by digital cameras and on the web. JPEG is an acronym for Joint ...

DateList (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DateList[] gives the current local date and time in the form {year, month, day, hour, minute, second}. DateList[time] gives a date list corresponding to an AbsoluteTime ...

MapIndexed (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

MapIndexed[f, expr] applies f to the elements of expr, giving the part specification of each element as a second argument to f. MapIndexed[f, expr, levelspec] applies f to ...

Raster (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Raster[{{a_11, a_12, ...}, ...}] is a two-dimensional graphics primitive which represents a rectangular array of gray cells. Raster[{{{r_11, g_11, b_11}, ...}, ...}] ...

Complex Polynomial Systems (Mathematica Tutorial)

The Mathematica functions Reduce, Resolve, and FindInstance allow you to solve a wide variety of problems that can be expressed in terms of equations and inequalities. The ...

Manipulating Lists by Their Indices (Mathematica Tutorial)

Getting parts of lists. This gives a list of parts 1 and 3. Here is a nested list.

The Design of the NDSolve Framework (Mathematica Tutorial)

Supporting a large number of numerical integration methods for differential equations is a lot of work. In order to cut down on maintenance and duplication of code, common ...