文档介绍：Mathematica in Action
Stan Wagon
Mathematica in Action
Problem Solving Through Visualization
putation
Third edition
Stan Wagon
Department of Mathematics
puter Science
Macalester College
1600 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105
USA
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Contents
Preface ix
0 A Brief Introduction 1
Notational Conventions 2
Typesetting 3
Basic Mathematical Functions 5
Using Functions 7
Replacements 12
Lists 13
Getting Information 15
Algebraic Manipulations 17
Customizing Mathematica 19
Data Sets in Mathematica 19
1 Plotting 23
Plot 24
An Arcsin Curiosity 26
Adaptive Plotting 28
Plotting Tables and Tabling Plots 31
Dealing with Discontinuities 34
ListPlot 37
ParametricPlot 42
Difficult Plots 48
2 Prim