36 questions linked to/from Define parameterized function
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### What is the meaning of two square brackets in function definition? [duplicate]

I came along the following function definition f[a_, b_, c_][r_] = ... with some function on the right hand side. Is this equivalent to ...
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### what is the difference between these definitions? [duplicate]

I define 2 functions: g[s_][x_,y_] := the gaussian (1) g1[s_,x_,y_] := the gaussian (2) I get the same answer using ...
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### Confusing alternative definition of a function [duplicate]

I saw a function defined something like the following: f[n_Integer][r, θ] = Sin[n r π/L] Cos[n r L π θ/4] My question is, why did my professor define the ...
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### V10's Operator Forms - what are they good for?

V10 introduces an operator form for several functions perhaps primarily due to their role in queries as part of introducing data science functionality. At first pass it seems a lot of effort to add ...
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### How do you set attributes on SubValues?

SubValues, as discussed in a previous question, are declared as follows ...
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### How do I use Map for a function with two arguments?

I'm a newbie who tries to be a good boy, and use Map instead of writing out a list of functions. I have a table I want to Map ...
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### How can one define a custom data object?

In Mathematica there are different objects like InterpolatingFunction or SparseArray? How can I define a custom data object with ...
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### Need help coding/creating a recursive list

I have two lists A and B, each with 99 real numbers. I want to form a list, C, whose ...
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### Proper way to handle free variables in manipulate/plot?

It took me a while today to figure out that Manipulate (used with Plot) requires that the variable I'm manipulating be an actual ...
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### Postfix with two arguments

This must be a duplicate but I can't find any related post. I want to pass two arguments to a function using postfix syntax like f[a_,b_]:=a+b; 1,2//f More ...
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### Built-in symbols that support operator form [duplicate]

In version 10 some built-in symbols are updated to support operator form like the Derivative. For example, Select, ...
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### What is the right way to write a function that includes other functions?

I want to include multiple sub functions: $b(x) = 10x$ $w(x) = s + b(x)$ $c(x) = x^2$ into two main functions: $ua(x) = w(x)-c(x)$ $ub(x) = w(x)-c(x)^2$ As a reaction to this answer, I wrote ...
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### Change sublist based on position

Supposed that: list = {2, 3, 5, 7, 9}; sublist = {{3, 3, 5}, {2, 2, 2, 7, 9}}; I want to change each sublist in sublist as following: Find the positions of ...