Roman E. Maeder

Indeholder "Preface", "About This Book", " About the Examples in this Book", " Contents of the Chapters", " References to the Mathematica Book", " Trying Out the Examples", " Which Version of Mathematica is Described?", " Notation and Terminology", " Teaching Mathematica Programming", " Changes from the First Edition", "1. From Interactive Commands to a Package", " 1.1 Collecting Commands in a Package", " 1.2 The Basic Ingredients of a Package", " 1.3 Adding Another Function to the Package", " 1.4 Adding Defaults and Options", " 1.5 Another Way to Add Defaults", " 1.6 Passing Options to Another Function", " 1.7 Advanced Topic: Dealing with Singularities", " 1.8 Parameter Type Checking", "2. Encapsulation Mechanisms for Packages", " 2.1 All about Contexts", " 2.2 Packages that Use Other Packages", " 2.3 Protection of Symbols in a Package", " 2.4 A Skeletal Package", " 2.5 Special Cases", " 2.6 Procedures and Local Variables", "3. Defaults and Options", " 3.1 Simple Default Values for Arguments of Functions", " 3.2 Computed Defaults", " 3.3 Defining Options for Functions", " 3.4 Filtering Options", "4. Functional and Procedural Programming", " 4.1 Loops", " 4.2 Structured Iteration", " 4.3 Function Application Instead of Iteration", " 4.4 Map and Apply", " 4.5 Application: The Platonic Solids", " 4.6 Operations on Lists and Matrices", "5. Evaluation", " 5.1 Evaluation of the Body of a Rule", " 5.2 Pure Functions", " 5.3 Evaluation of Arguments of Functions", " 5.4 Application: Programmed Definition of Functions", " 5.5 Assigning Values to Expressions", " 5.6 Advanced Topic: Scopes of Names", "6. Building Rule Sets", " 6.1 Introduction to Simplification Rules and Normal Forms", " 6.2 Trigonometric Simplifications", " 6.3 Globally Defined Rules", " 6.4 Pattern Matching for Rules", " 6.5 Traversing Expressions", "7. Numerical Computations", " 7.1 Numbers", " 7.2 Numerical Evaluation", " 7.3 Application: Solution of Differential Equations", "8. Overriding Built-in Rules", " 8.1 User-Defined Rules Take Precedence", " 8.2 Modifying the Main Evaluation Loop", " 8.3 Adding to a System Function", " 8.4 Advanced Topic: Introducing a New Mathematical Function", "9. Input and Output", " 9.1 Output Formatting", " 9.2 Input from Files and Programs", " 9.3 Running Mathematica Unattended", " 9.4 Session Logging", "10. Notebooks", " 10.1 Packages and Notebooks", " 10.2 Conversion between Notebooks and Packages", "11. More Graphics Programming", " 11.1 Graphics Packages", " 11.2 The Cover Picture", " 11.3 Animated Graphics", "Appendix A. Exercises", " A.1 Programming Exercises", " A.2 Solutions to Exercises", "Appendix B. Bibliography", " B.1 Background Information and Further Reading", " B.2 References", "Appendix C. Program Listings", " C.1 Index to Complete Listings of All Packages", " C.2 Additional Program Listings", "Index".

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