Synopses & Reviews
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 .
Synopsis
Introduction to Programming with Mathematica is designed to teach Mathematica programming to scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists so that they can fully utilize Mathematica for their work in research or education. No prior familiarity with Mathematica or programming is assumed. The text can be used either for individual study by students and professionals or in a Mathematica-related university course. The second edition of the book and diskette contains a number of new features: a new chapter on Applications (Chapter 11), additional material on packages, and more exercises throughout. Solutions to the exercises are provided both in the book and on the accompanying diskette.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-434) and index.
Table of Contents
Contents: Preliminaries.- A Brief Overview of Mathematica.- List Manipulation.- Functions.- Evaluation of Expressions.- Conditional Function Definitions.- Recursion.- Iteration.- Numerics.- Graphics Programming.- Applications.- Contents and Packages.