Description

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A comprehensive guide to Mathematica focusing on the specific needs of scientists and engineers. Provides numerous real-world examples in differential equations, boundary value problems, vector field theory, and tensors. Gives a thorough treatment of evaluation issues that affect long running times and memory management. An electronic supplement containing the code segments (Mathematica packages) from the book is available. Contents

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The Basic Building Blocks | Working with Lists | Graphics | Scoping Constructs | Functions | Symbolic Calculation | Numerical Calculations | Vectors, Matrices, and Tensors | Differential Equations | Boundary Value Problems | Input and Output | Running Mathematica | Mathematica Packages | Introduction to MathLink Communication | Appendix A1: Mathematica Kernel and Front End | Appendix A2: Mathematica Input Related Topics

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Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Programming, Tutorial and Reference