Description
Book SynopsisThis practical, example-driven introduction is designed for Mathematica users, new and accomplished, who wish to learn the foundations of the Mathematica programming language in order to apply it to the task of solving concrete problems in science, engineering, economics and finance, computational linguistics, geoscience, bioinformatics and so on.
Table of ContentsPreface; 1. An introduction to Mathematica; 2. The Mathematica language; 3. Lists; 4. Patterns and rules; 5. Functional programming; 6. Procedural programming; 7. Recursion; 8. Numerics; 9. Strings; 10. Graphics and visualization; 11. Dynamic expressions; 12. Optimizing Mathematica programs; 13. Applications and packages; References; Solutions to exercises; Index.
