The Mathematica Book, Fifth Edition

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As both a highly readable tutorial and a definitive reference for over a million Mathematica users worldwide, this book covers every aspect of Mathematica. It is an essential resource for all users of Mathematica from beginners to experts. This expanded fifth edition presents Mathematica Version 5 for the first time and is important for anyone interested in the progress of advanced computing.

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1 Printed from the Mathematica Help Browser Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wolfram, Stephen, 1959 – Mathematica book / Stephen Wolfram. — 5thed. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 1–57955–022–3 (hardbound). 1. Mathematica (Computer file) 2. Mathematics—Dataprocessing. I. Title. QA76.95.W65 2003 510 .285 5369—dc21XX–XXXXX CIP Comments on this book will be welcomed at: [email protected] In publications that refer to the Mathematica system, please cite this book as: Stephen Wolfram, The Mathematica Book, 5th ed. (Wolfram Media, 2003) First and second editions published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company under the title Mathematica: A System for Doing Mathematics by Computer. Third and fourth editions co-published by Wolfram Media and Cambridge University Press. Published by: ISBN 1–57955–022–3 Wolfram Media, Inc. web: www.wolfram–media.com; +1–217–398–9090; fax: +1–217–398–9095 email: [email protected]–media.com phone: mail: 100 Trade Center Drive, Champaign, IL 61820, USA Copyright © 1988, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2003 by Wolfram Research, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmit