An Introduction to Programming with Mathematica [Paperback]

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 .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 .1 Preliminaries.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Using Mathematica.- 1.2.1 Getting Into and Out of Mathematica.- 1.2.2 Getting Help.- 1.2.3 The Syntax of Inputs.- 1.2.4 Errors.- 1.3 The Mathematica Language.- 1.3.1 Internal Forms of Expressions.- 1.3.2 Predicates and Boolean Operations.- 1.3.3 Evaluation of Expressions.- 1.3.4 Attributes.- 1.4 The Mathematica Interface.- 1.4.1 The Notebook Front End.- 1.4.2 The Command Line Interface.- 2 A Brief Overview of Mathematica.- 2.1 Numerical and Symbolic Computations.- 2.2 Functions.- 2.2.1 Functions of Number Theory.- 2.2.2 Functions of Linear Algebra.- 2.2.3 Random Number Generators.- 2.2.4 Packages.- 2.3 Graphics.- 2.3.1 Two-Dimensional Plots.- 2.3.2 Parametric Plots.- 2.3.3 Three-Dimensional Plots.- 2.4 Representation of Data.- 2.5 Programming.- 2.5.1 Example-Harmonic Numbers.- 2.5.2 ExamplePerfect Numbers.- 3 List Manipulation.- 3.1 Introduction.- lSÃ