This tag is for requests for books, online resources, etc. that deal with the Mathematica system and its applications. This tag is also for asking references for algorithms used within Mathematica.
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Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?
I consider myself a pretty good Mathematica programmer, but I'm always looking out for ways to either improve my way of doing things in Mathematica, or to see if there's something nifty that I haven't ...
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Are you interested in purchasing David Wagner's “Power programming with Mathematica”?
I recently contacted McGraw-Hill to see if they have a mechanism in place for printing out-of-print books that are still of interest. Specifically, I asked about "Power programming with Mathematica" ...
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Adaptive sampling for slow to compute functions in 2D
EDIT: Although I have posted an answer based on my current progress, this in incomplete. Please see the "open issues" section in the answer.
Most plotting functions in Mathematica adjust the ...
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What is the best Mathematica tutorial for young people?
As Conrad Wolfram said at the TED conference, in the future kids should focus more on new technology. Computers compute better than humans, so we should focus more on thinking and getting the ...
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Mathematica for Computer Scientists
Background
I've coded in C/Scheme for 10 years. I have a BS CS.
I've recently become very interested in pattern-matching (lisp's match macro), and term rewriting systems, which brought me to ...
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Learning Finance with Mathematica
Background
My math background is strong by CS standards, probably normal by mathematica standards. (i.e. familiarity with real analysis, linear algebra, managed to read the proof of the prime number ...
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What Mathematica book to buy?
I have used Mathematica for several years but at a pretty low level - piecing together built-in function inefficiently and fearing the sight of # and &'s when I see others use them (I never do). I ...
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Is it necessary to have a prior computational background or is it possible to learn Mathematica as a first programming language?
I have a background in economics and I'm very interested in learning Mathematica but I'm afraid of starting out because I have seen that most programmers already have a good background in some kind of ...
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What method does NDSolve use for solving PDEs?
What is NDSolve's mode of operation?
I use it to solve partial differential equations and never gave it too much thought. Recently, I came across this question. ...
