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From: Olive on 20 Jun 2010 03:47 I am new to mathematica and I am looking at a book to learn mathematica (in fact I have not yet mathematica but I am considering purchasing a home license). I would say no more than 300-400 pages that explain how the system works, basic of programming etc... Any thought? Olive
From: Nasser M. Abbasi on 20 Jun 2010 04:12 On 6/20/2010 12:47 AM, Olive wrote: > I am new to mathematica and I am looking at a book to learn > mathematica (in fact I have not yet mathematica but I am considering > purchasing a home license). I would say no more than 300-400 pages that > explain how the system works, basic of programming etc... Any thought? > > Olive > I do not think you really need a book. There is on-line documentation and tutorials that comes with Mathematica that is more than enough to keep you busy for a long time. Another way I found to help me learn Mathematica "tricks", is to go to Wolfram demo web site, and look at the source code of some examples to learn how to do certain things. In Mathematica in particular, I find that I learn it better by looking at examples. There is no language reference manual really. I learn Mathematica by doing Mathematica. --Nasser
From: Vicent on 20 Jun 2010 04:13 It is a bit longer than you ask for, but I think that the Mathematica Cookbook is a good place to learn: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596521004 <http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596521004>-- Vicent On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 09:46, Olive <not0read0765(a)yopmail.com> wrote: > I am new to mathematica and I am looking at a book to learn > mathematica (in fact I have not yet mathematica but I am considering > purchasing a home license). I would say no more than 300-400 pages that > explain how the system works, basic of programming etc... Any thought? > > Olive >
From: Leonid Shifrin on 21 Jun 2010 02:11 You may want to check out my book: http://www.mathprogramming-intro.org It's about the size you requested, and I tried to explain the topics you mentioned. Some people found it useful. Also, it is free. I briefly review some other books devoted to general Mathematica here: http://www.mathprogramming-intro.org/book/node67.html All these books are highly recommended. Most of them are somewhat dated, but for the topics they cover (core langauge & system principles) this is less important than for some other aspects of the system, since they did not change as much. There is also a recently published Mathematica Cookbook by Sal Mangano. I did not have a chance to get a hold on it yet. By looking at the table of contents and the free chapter, it looks pretty good. Regards, Leonid On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Olive <not0read0765(a)yopmail.com> wrote: > I am new to mathematica and I am looking at a book to learn > mathematica (in fact I have not yet mathematica but I am considering > purchasing a home license). I would say no more than 300-400 pages that > explain how the system works, basic of programming etc... Any thought? > > Olive > > > >
From: Mauricio Esteban Cuak on 21 Jun 2010 02:11
After I had used mathematica for a few weeks, I benefited a lot from Mathematica Navigator by Heikki Ruskeepaa<http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&field-author=Heikki%20Ruskeepaa> cd 2010/6/20 Vicent <vginer(a)gmail.com> > It is a bit longer than you ask for, but I think that the Mathematica > Cookbook is a good place to learn: > http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596521004 > > <http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596521004>-- > Vicent > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 09:46, Olive <not0read0765(a)yopmail.com> wrote: > > > I am new to mathematica and I am looking at a book to learn > > mathematica (in fact I have not yet mathematica but I am considering > > purchasing a home license). I would say no more than 300-400 pages that > > explain how the system works, basic of programming etc... Any thought? > > > > Olive > > > |