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The second edition of the classic Mathematica by Example is completely compatible with Mathematica, Version 3.0. It is highly readable and informative, and is geared towards the beginning Mathematica user, and focuses on the most often used features of this powerful tool. A CD-ROM is included with the text, featuring all of the Mathematica input that appears in the book. Features: * Fully compatible with Mathematica 3.0 * Includes a CD-ROM containing all input used in the text * Focuses on the beginning Mathematica user * Covers all basics needed to get up and running with Mathematica, especially for use in mathematics * Written by authors of several successful AP books on Mathematica

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• Getting Started: Introduction to Mathematica
• Getting Started With Mathematica
• Loading Packages
• Getting Help from Mathematica
• Mathematical Operations on Numbers, Expressions, and Functions: Numerical Calculationsand Built-In Functions
• Expressions and Functions
• Graphing Functions, Expressions, and Equations
• Exact and Approximate Solutions of Equations
• Calculus: Computing Limits
• Differential Calculus
• Implicit Differentiation
• Integral Calculus
• Series.Multi-Variable Calculus
• Introduction to Lists and Tables: Defining Lists
• Operations on Lists
• Mathematics of Finance
• Other Applications
• Nested Lists: Matrices and Vectors: Nested Lists: Introduction to Matrices, Vectors, and Matrix Operations
• Linear Systems of Equations
• Selected Topics from Linear Algebra
• Maxima and Minima Using Linear Programming
• Vector Calculus
• Applications Related to Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations: First-Order Ordinary Differential Equations
• Higher-Order Ordinary Differential Equations
• Using the Laplace Transform to Solve Ordinary Differential Equations
• Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations
• Some Partial Differential Equations
• Some Graphics Packages: ComplexMap
• ContourPlot3D
• Graphics
• ImplicitPlot
• MultipleListPlot and Graphics3D
• PlotField and PlotField 3D
• Polyhedra and Shapes
• Selected References
• Index

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CHOICE Review

One of a growing number of Mathematica texts, with nearly 600 completely worked examples, making it the most extensive volume of usable examples published to date. All examples are fully illustrated using copies of Macintosh screen prints; each illustration contains one or more insert notations of help or information. After a very brief discussion of how to access Mathematica and what it looks like on the Macintosh, the authors present examples, chosen from science, mathematics, and business. This is the first Mathematica text with business applications that this reviewer has seen. To use these materials one should have a working knowledge of Mathematica. A good companion text to precede this one is N. Blachman's Mathematica: A Practical Approach (CH, Oct'92). The materials are suitable for both students and practitioners. Illustrations are plentiful but the quality is less than acceptable in many places; 2-D and 3-D gray-scale illustrations are poor. The words and special characters in some illustrations are difficult to read. Some of the boldface type and italic type are unreadable. An excellent choice was the use of boldface type for the text the user must enter. Sparse references; good index. Advanced undergraduates and up. J. C. Biddle; University of Louisville