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Overview
Mathematica is today’s most advanced technical computing system. It features a rich programming environment, two- and three-dimensional graphics capabilities and hundreds of sophisticated, powerful programming and mathematical functions using state-of-the-art algorithms. Combined with a user-friendly interface, and a complete mathematical typesetting system, Mathematica offers an intuitive, easy-to-handle environment of great power and utility.
"The Mathematica GuideBook for Graphics" provides a comprehensive step-by-step development of how to use Mathematica to visualize functions and data, manipulate graphics, and optimize their appearance. Two-dimensional graphics, contour plots, plots of surfaces, free-form three-dimensional surfaces, and animations are the core topics. Hundreds of detailed examples and programs show a large variety of visualization techniques, algorithms, methods, and tricks. These tools allow the reader to create virtually any possible graphic, from simple curves to scientific visualizations and artistic images and logos. Mathematica graphics functions are discussed in detail, explained in numerous examples, and put to work in programs that are all contained on the accompanying DVD.
Unique Features:
Step-by-step introductions to all Mathematica graphics capabilities
Comprehensive presentation of two- and three-dimensional graphics primitives and directives, as well as plotting capabilities for functions and data
Hundreds of unique and innovative scientific visualizations and artistic images
Website for book with additional materials and updates: http://www.MathematicaGuideBooks.org
Accompanying DVD contains all material as an electronic book with complete, executable Mathematica versions 4 and 5 compatible code and programs, rendered color graphics, and animations
Michael Trott is a symbolic computation and computer graphics expert. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics and joined the R&D team at Wolfram Research in 1994, the creators of Mathematica. Since 1998, he has been leading the development of the Wolfram Functions Site http://functions.wolfram.com, which currently features more than 80,000 formulas and identities, and thousands of visualizations.
"...this comprehensive, detailed reference to mathematica provides the reader with both a working knowledge & a detailed one to the key aspects needed to create faster, shorter, & more elegant implementations."
Synopsis
Trott is a symbolic computation and computer graphics expert (also a theoretical physicist) and an employee of Wolfram Research (creators of Mathematica). He guides readers through its unifying design and philosophy as well as the nuts and bolts of its human interface. This is one of four "Guidebooks" (the others cover programming, numerics, and symbolics) written to introduce and then delve much deeper into the program's potential for helping engineers and scientists solve problems—not just "textbook" examples where everything goes smoothly, but problems with obstacles that require some programming and a flexible knowledge of Mathematica's strengths and weak points. Coverage includes 2D graphics, 3D graphics, and contour and density plots. The included DVD-ROM contains the book's text and also allows readers to experiment with code, investigate parameter dependencies, write annotations, view graphics in color (the book as over 2,000 small b&w graphics), and run animations; a website offers further supplementation. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR