Essentials of Programming in Mathematica®

This book covers Mathematica® for beginners. An example-driven text covering a wide variety of applications, containing over 350 exercises with solutions available online.

Paul Wellin (Author)

9781107116665, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 December 2015

436 pages, 45 b/w illus. 190 colour illus. 350 exercises
25.3 x 19.7 x 2.3 cm, 1.1 kg

Essentials of Programming in Mathematica® provides an introduction suitable for readers with little or no background in the language as well as for those with some experience using programs such as C, Java, or Perl. The author, an established authority on Mathematica® programming, has written an example-driven text that covers the language from first principles, as well as including material from natural language processing, bioinformatics, graphs and networks, signal analysis, geometry, computer science, and many other applied areas. The book is appropriate for self-study or as a text for a course in programming in computational science. Readers will benefit from the author's tips, which provide insight and suggestions on small and large points. He also provides more than 350 exercises from novice through to advanced level with all of the solutions available online.

Preface
1. Programming with Mathematica
2. The Mathematica language
3. Lists and associations
4. Patterns and rules
5. Functions
6. Programs
7. Strings
8. Graphics and visualization
9. Program optimization
10. Packages
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Software Engineering [UMZ], Programming & scripting languages: general [UMX], Computer programming / software development [UM], Computing & information technology [U]