Essentials of Programming in Mathematica®

This introduction is suitable for someone who has little or no background in Mathematica®, or who has some experience using other languages such as C, Java, or Perl. Starting from first principles, this example-driven text contains material from disciplines as varied as linguistics, bioinformatics, geometry, computer science, and many more.

Essentials of Programming in Mathematica® provides an introduction suitable for readers with little or no background in the language as well as for those with some experience using programs such as C, Java, or Perl. The author, an established authority on Mathematica® programming, has written an example-driven text that covers the language from first principles, as well as including material from natural language processing, bioinformatics, graphs and networks, signal analysis, geometry, computer science, and many other applied areas. The book is appropriate for self-study or as a text for a course in programming in computational science. Readers will benefit from the author''s tips, which provide insight and suggestions on small and large points. He also provides more than 350 exercises from novice through to advanced level with all of the solutions available online.