The Mathematica Book, Fifth Edition

Stephen Wolfram, 2003, Wolfram Media, Inc., 1,488 pp., hardcover

As both a highly readable tutorial and a definitive reference for over a million Mathematica users worldwide, this book covers every aspect of Mathematica. It is an essential resource for all users of Mathematica from beginners to experts. This expanded fifth edition presents Mathematica Version 5 for the first time and is important for anyone interested in the progress of advanced computing.

Included in this new edition are the following:

• Visual tour of key features
• Practical tutorial introduction
• Full descriptions of 1,200+ built-in functions
• Thousands of illustrative examples
• Easy-to-follow descriptive tables
• Essays highlighting key concepts
• Mathematica language tutorial
• Guide to symbolic programming
• Introduction to document-centered interfaces
• Guide to the MathLink API
• Notes on internal implementation
• Index with 10,000+ entries

Chapters
A Tour of Mathematica | A Practical Introduction to Mathematica | Principles of Mathematica | Advanced Mathematics in Mathematica | Appendix: Mathematica Reference Guide

This book is available in the Wolfram Research bookstore.