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### Algorithms behind implemented Mathematica functions [duplicate]

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### Determining the default Method used in optimization and root-finding algorithms

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### What method does NDSolve use for solving PDEs?

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### inspecting step size and order of $\tt NDSolve$

I am trying to collect information about what step sizes and what orders is using NDSolve internally. I tried wrapping it into a ...
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I've been using Mathematica to solve nonlinear partial differential equations for my doctoral research for the last 2 years or so. I am not an expert in Mathematica or mathematics and I am an engineer ...
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I use Mathematica's built-in method: ...
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### Trouble with shooting method for a 4th-order differential equation

I'm trying to solve the following forth-order ODE with the shooting method: \frac{1}{5}(y-2xy^\prime)=\frac{1}{x}\left\{\frac{xy^\prime}{y}+xy^3 \left[\frac{(xy^\prime)^\prime}{x} \right]^\prime \...
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### What Method values are available for Plot?

The Documentation Center article on Plot notes under Details and Options that Method is one of the options for ...
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### Intermediate variables in NDSolve

I'm interested in using NDSolve as an integrator for a system of differential equations that looks like the following: ...
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### How to know the internal pre-processing of automatic machine learning function Classify?

In the Highly automatic machine learning page, it is said the function like Classify and Predict will do things like automatic ...
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### Finding NDSolve method details

I have eqs about the NDSolve, I know this code given the solving automatically. How can I find out what method is used behind the scenes? How can I gauge the ...
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### Estimating error in NDSolve

I would like to give a theoretical estimation of local truncation error (and then for the global one) for a solution to a numerical initial value problem by NDSolve....