The Mathematica Book - Softcover

Wolfram, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965053210 ISBN 13: 9780965053211

Publisher: Wolfram Media Inc / Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

As both a highly readable tutorial and a definitive reference for over a million Mathematica users worldwide, this book covers every aspect of Mathematica. It is an essential resource for all users of Mathematica from beginners to experts. This expanded fifth edition presents Mathematica Version 5 for the first time and is important for anyone interested in the progress of advanced computing.

Included in this new edition are the following:

- Visual tour of key features
- Practical tutorial introduction
- Full descriptions of 1,200+ built-in functions
- Thousands of illustrative examples
- Easy-to-follow descriptive tables
- Essays highlighting key concepts
- Mathematica language tutorial
- Guide to symbolic programming
- Introduction to document-centered interfaces
- Guide to the MathLink API
- Notes on internal implementation
- Index with 10,000+ entries

About this title

Book Description

'Everything about Mathematica and the way it has been developed is impressive ... it is the most comprehensive maths package available today that covers both numeric and symbolic computation. Mathematica 3.0 is simply the new standard of excellence.' Mike James, Scientific Computing World

From the Back Cover

Mathematica has defined the state of the art in technical computing for nearly a decade, and has become a standard in many of the world's leading companies and universities. From simple calculator operations to large-scale programming and interactive document preparation, Mathematica is the tool of choice at the frontiers of scientific research, in engineering analysis and modeling, in technical education from high school to graduate school, and wherever quantitative methods are used.

The Mathematica Book is the best-selling book on technical computing ever. This greatly expanded third edition presents for the first time Mathematica Version 3. As both highly readable tutorial and definitive reference, the book covers every aspect of the system. It is essential for all users, as well as for anyone interested in the revolutionary new ideas of Mathematica Version 3.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wolfram Media Inc / Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0965053210
• ISBN 13: 9780965053211
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1403