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Overview
This comprehensive, detailed reference provides readers with both a working knowledge of Mathematica in general and a detailed knowledge of the key aspects needed to create the fastest, shortest, and most elegant implementations possible. It gives users a deeper understanding of Mathematica by instructive implementations, explanations, and examples from a range of disciplines at varying levels of complexity. The three volumes — Programming, Graphics, and Mathematics, total 3,000 pages and contain more than 15,000 Mathematica inputs, over 1,500 graphics, 4,000+ references, and more than 500 exercises.
This first volume begins with the structure of Mathematica expressions, the syntax of Mathematica, its programming, graphic, numeric and symbolic capabilities. It then covers the hierarchical construction of objects out of symbolic expressions, the definition of functions, the recognition of patterns and their efficient application, program flows and program structuring, and the manipulation of lists.
An indispensible resource for students, researchers and professionals in mathematics, the sciences, and engineering.
"...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
Part of a four-volume set, this initial volume provides a thorough, clearly organized text describing the programming language of Mathematica. Trott, who is part of the research and development team at Wolfram Research (which developed Mathematica), presents the material in sequential chapters, each beginning with a description of a function and a few examples. The function is then presented in a programmatically constructed overview with links to its attributes and options and a list of references. The chapter concludes with a group of exercises accompanied by lengthy discussion of the potential solution of each. In this fashion, readers build their knowledge on solid building blocks of information combined with hands-on application. The included DVD contains the 14 main notebooks of Mathematica (tailored to Mathematica 4 and compatible to Mathematica 5), a hyperlinked table of contents and index, a navigation palette, and a utility notebook and files. The next three volumes describe how to use Mathematica for graphics, numerics, and symbolics. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR