The Mathematica Book

by Stephen Wolfram

With over a million users around the world, the Mathematica software system created by Stephen Wolfram has defined the direction of technical computing for the past decade. The enhanced text and hypertext processing and state-of-the-art numerical computation features ensure that Mathematica 4 takes scientific computing into the next century. New to this version: visual tour of key features, practical tutorial introduction, full descriptions of 1100 built-in functions, a thousand illustrative examples, easy-to-follow descriptive tables, essays highlighting key concepts, examples of data import and export, award-winning gallery of Mathematica graphics, gallery of mathematical typesetting, dictionary of 700 special characters, a complete guide to the MathLink API, notes on internal implementation, and an index with over 10,000 entries copublished with Wolfram Media.

Genres: Mathematics, Computers, Programming, Reference, Software, Computer Science

1403 pages, Paperback

First published May 28, 1996

About the author

Stephen Wolfram is the founder & CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha & Wolfram Language, author of A New Kind of Science and other books, and the originator of Wolfram Physics Project.

Reviews

[m00nlight · Rating 5 out of 5]

The part two of this book give a in depth introduction to the internal representation and evaluation of the Mathematica expression, which is normally not touched by other Mathematica book. And is actually extremely useful if you want to learn Mathematica well.

Although this book is based on V5, since the concise of the Mathematica language, it is still of high value to every people who want to learn Mathematica deeply.

Highly recommended to every one who want to learn Mathematica.

[Michael Bibbs · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great handbook for someone looking to blend mathematics and computer science. Good balance between instruction and practices/examples.
A little outdated, but still teaches the core principles and how to guide oneself through the program.

[Thomas Ray]

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