A Beginner's Guide to Mathematica

David McMahon and Daniel M. Topa, 2006, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 724 pp., paperback

ISBN: 1584884673

This book offers a simple, step-by-step approach to help math-savvy newcomers build the skills needed to use Mathematica in practice. It gets readers started on performing specific, relatively basic tasks, enabling them to build on the experience and move on to more real-world problems. The guide emphasizes notebook and file system organization, cross-platform capabilities, and data reading and writing.

Contents
Introduction and Survey | Computation Examples | Graphics Examples | Ordinary Differential Equations | Transforms | Integration | Special Functions | Appendix 1: Pictionary of 2D Graphics Types | Appendix 2: Pictionary of 3D Graphics Types

This book is available in the Wolfram Research bookstore.