An Introduction to Programming with Mathematica®

✍ Scribed by Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, Paul R. Wellin

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 467
• Edition: 2nd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Accompanying the book, as with all TELOS sponsored publications, is an electronic component. In this case it is a DOS-Diskette produced by one of the coauthors, Paul Wellin. This diskette consists of Mathematica notebooks and packages which contain the codes for all examples and exercises in the book, as well as additional materials intended to extend many ideas covered in the text. It is of great value to teachers, students, and others using this book to learn how to effectively program with Mathematica.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Preliminaries....Pages 1-27
A Brief Overview of Mathematica....Pages 29-57
List Manipulation....Pages 59-86
Functions....Pages 87-122
Evaluation of Expressions....Pages 123-152
Conditional Function Definitions....Pages 153-168
Recursion....Pages 169-223
Iteration....Pages 225-253
Numerics....Pages 255-298
Graphics Programming....Pages 299-368
Applications....Pages 369-406
Contexts and Packages....Pages 407-429
Back Matter....Pages 431-452

✦ Subjects

Mathematical Software; Programming Techniques; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Algorithms