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An Introduction to Programming with Mathematica®

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
  2. Preliminaries

    • Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, Paul R. Wellin
    Pages 1-27
  3. A Brief Overview of Mathematica

    • Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, Paul R. Wellin
    Pages 29-57
  4. List Manipulation

    • Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, Paul R. Wellin
    Pages 59-86
  5. Functions

    • Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, Paul R. Wellin
    Pages 87-122
  6. Evaluation of Expressions

    • Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, Paul R. Wellin
    Pages 123-152
  7. Conditional Function Definitions

    • Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, Paul R. Wellin
    Pages 153-168
  8. Recursion

    • Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, Paul R. Wellin
    Pages 169-223
  9. Iteration

    • Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, Paul R. Wellin
    Pages 225-253
  10. Numerics

    • Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, Paul R. Wellin
    Pages 255-298
  11. Graphics Programming

    • Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, Paul R. Wellin
    Pages 299-368
  12. Applications

    • Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, Paul R. Wellin
    Pages 369-406
  13. Contexts and Packages

    • Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, Paul R. Wellin
    Pages 407-429
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 431-452

About this book

Accompanying the book, as with all TELOS sponsored publications, is an electronic component. In this case it is a DOS-Diskette produced by one of the coauthors, Paul Wellin. This diskette consists of Mathematica notebooks and packages which contain the codes for all examples and exercises in the book, as well as additional materials intended to extend many ideas covered in the text. It is of great value to teachers, students, and others using this book to learn how to effectively program with Mathematica .

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Materials Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

    Richard J. Gaylord

  • Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

    Samuel N. Kamin

  • Dept. of Mathematics, California State University Sonoma, Rohnert Park, USA

    Paul R. Wellin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: An Introduction to Programming with Mathematica®

  • Authors: Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, Paul R. Wellin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2322-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-94434-0Published: 12 October 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7502-2Published: 28 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-2322-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 452

  • Topics: Mathematical Software, Programming Techniques, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Algorithms

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