Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. The eigenvalues of a matrix m are the values λ_i for which one can find nonzero vectors v_i such that m.v_i λ_iv_i. The eigenvectors are the ...
PowerSymmetricPolynomial[r] represents a formal power symmetric polynomial with exponent r.PowerSymmetricPolynomial[{r_1, r_2, ...}] represents a multivariate formal power ...
ValueFunction[symb] represents a function to be applied whenever the symbol symb gets a new value.
Attributes for controlling numerical evaluation. Usually N goes inside functions and gets applied to each of their arguments. This tells Mathematica not to apply N to the ...
DigitQ
(Built-in Mathematica Symbol) DigitQ[string] yields True if all the characters in the string are digits in the range 0 through 9, and yields False otherwise.
$LicenseExpirationDate is a date list that gives the expiration date for the license under which Mathematica is being run.
Animations can convey much more information than static displays. The built-in Mathematica functions Animate and ListAnimate provide an immediate way to construct animations ...
DefaultFontProperties is a global option that specifies various properties of a font family, such as its character encoding and whether it is monospaced.
WordSeparators is an option for Read, Find, and related functions that specifies the list of strings to be taken as delimiters for words.
Converting notebooks to HTML. Export has many options applying to HTML export that allow you to specify how notebooks should be converted for web browsers with different ...