Some Mathematica Basics Some Mathematica Basics Contents . The commands have been tested for Mma versions 3.0 and 2.2. Starting Up . Once these are settled, most commands are device-independent.
Fundamentals There are no prompts.
Substitution by slash-dot. Extra spaces between characters are ignored, that is, two or more consecutive spaces are treated as a single space. Searching the Help menu will usually produce examples as well as more details. In addition, Mathematica has excellent error notification, helping with the correction of defective input. A curve in any R n is a list whose n components are expressions in a single variable.