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Mathematica Cookbook
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(Paperback - May 12, 2010)
by Sal Mangano
Sales Rank: 57887
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List Price: $64.99
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Paperback: 832 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition May 5, 2010
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596520999
ISBN-13: 978-0596520991
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.9 x 1.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
Product Description
Mathematica Cookbook helps you master the application's core principles by walking you through real-world problems. Ideal for browsing, this book includes recipes for working with numerics, data structures, algebraic equations, calculus, and statistics. You'll also venture into exotic territory with recipes for data visualization using 2D and 3D graphic tools, image processing, and music. Although Mathematica 7 is a highly advanced computational platform, the recipes in this book make it accessible to everyone -- whether you're working on high school algebra, simple graphs, PhD-level computation, financial analysis, or advanced engineering models. - Learn how to use Mathematica at a higher level with functional programming and pattern matching
- Delve into the rich library of functions for string and structured text manipulation
- Learn how to apply the tools to physics and engineering problems
- Draw on Mathematica's access to physics, chemistry, and biology data
- Get techniques for solving equations in computational finance
- Learn how to use Mathematica for sophisticated image processing
- Process music and audio as musical notes, analog waveforms, or digital sound samples
Customer Reviews & Comments Mathematical scientists probably prefer Weisstein's The CRC Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Third Edition (3 volumes incl. code for Mathematica 7.0) for their research work, true fans adore the sheer thoroughness of Trott's Mathematica Guidebook and study the details page-after-page by working the way up from the bottom through all 4 volumes, total beginners and hasty users are content with a shallow but broad(!) introduction found in Mathematica Navigator, and for all remaining Mathematica practicionists Mangano's tome comes in handy as a helpful complement to the existing Tutorial Collection, see bit.ly/TheMathematicaBook . I've been knowing the software for quite some time and for my engineering studies it never meant more to me than an overpowered calculator but since the book is currently being sold in mass quantities at our campus bookstore I got re-interested too! About the contents: Each recipe has the same setup structure (problem,solution,discussion,reference) and is independent from other recipes apart from incidental crossreferences within the book. Some recipes (there arent too many in total actually) are more general (true recipes), some just explain the use of important key functions (because many users still would not know their use or meaning ;), and some are solutions to very specific problems, so all in all a good mix to learn from! Much material has been compiled and quoted from others but the author would always mention the references in detail or link to them (i didnt know bit.ly before, thanks! ;). The book offers everything a modern book should offer: a personal book webpage with additional and updated contents, a publisher's webpage with eventual typographical errors, the software itself (a Mathematica version is included!), a *.pdf-ebook version, a colorful fulltext *.nb-Mathematica notebook version, support by the makers, etc. So. I dont think that I will actually put the recipes into practice for my mundane mathematical calculations in place of some old TI calc but simply reading and understanding the refined tricks is so instructive, enjoyable and inspiring. All persons involved did a fantastic job with this product release, congrats!
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Mathematica Cookbook
List Price: $64.99
Available from Amazon
Price: $50.66

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