Long viewed as an important theoretical idea, functional programming finally became truly convenient and practical with the introduction of Mathematica's symbolic language. ...

Variables and functions are integral to Mathematica 's symbolic programming language. These "How tos" give step-by-step instructions for common tasks related to variables, ...

Mathematica immediately allows you to call both standalone programs and individual functions or methods within running programs. Mathematica's architecture allows external ...

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Mathematica provides a uniquely powerful interactive environment for building up arbitrarily complex computations, under convenient interactive or programmatic control.

Mathematica immediately allows you to do arithmetic not only with individual numbers, but also with arbitrary lists or arrays—as well as symbolic and algebraic forms. ...

Mathematica provides several convenient methods for extracting and manipulating parts of matrices. The flexible [[ ]] (Part) and ;; (Span) syntaxes provide compact yet ...

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Palettes can be configured to remember their previous states across front end sessions. This is useful for palettes containing multiple expandable sections, tab views, ...

Mathematica's symbolic character allows it to provide deep integrated support for algebraic numbers. At the core are Root objects, which provide exact implicit ...