An Introduction to Programming with Mathematica® is designed to introduce the Mathematica programming language to a wide audience. Since the last edition of this book was published, significant changes have occurred in Mathematica and its use worldwide. Keeping pace with these changes, this substantially larger, updated version includes new and revised chapters on numerics, procedural, rule-based, and front-end programming, and gives significant coverage to the latest features up to, and including, Mathematica 5.1 Mathematica notebooks, available from www.cambridge.org/0521846781, contain examples, programs, and solutions to exercises in the book. Additionally, material to supplement later versions of the software will be made available. This is the ideal text for all scientific students, researchers, and programmers wishing to deepen their understanding of Mathematica, or even those keen to program using an interactive language that contains programming paradigms from all major programming languages: procedural, functional, recursive, rule-based, and object-oriented.
• Comprehensive introduction to programming in Mathematica, including the latest version, written by experts in the field • New chapters written to incorporate new features in Versions 4 through 5.1 • Future updates, Mathematica notebooks and solutions to the hundreds of exercises are available at www.cambridge.org/0521846781
Contents
1. An introduction to Mathematica; 2. The Mathematica language; 3. Lists; 4. Functional programming; 5. Procedural programming; 6. Rule-based programming; 7. Recursion; 8. Numerics; 9. Graphics programming; 10. Front-end programming; 11. Examples and applications; 12. Writing packages; Appendix A: how expressions are evaluated; Appendix B: debugging.
Review
' … has been revised from cover to cover, with many organizational changes and a substantial amount of new material. It includes coverage up to and including Mathematica 5.1. While the second edition was very well received, the third edition strikes me as an essential document … I was struck immediately by the lucidity of the prose …This is not the first book to be written in Mathematica, but it is far and away the most beautiful. From page layout to production quality, the work is on par with any technical text produced by any publisher.' Bruce Torrence, The Mathematica Journal
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