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What are some good resources for learning to use mathematica? I am supposed to use mathematica to do numerical approximations for euler's method and the runge-kutta method, but I have no idea what I'm doing in mathematica.

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4355170

The standard handbook really isn't that bad. Other than that you can really just start the in build 10 minutes tour and at the end you know what's really happening. In contrast to Matlab, the Mathematica help is also easy to read.

>> No.4356708

>>4355170
Where to get standard handbook?

>> No.4356733

The Mathematica Cookbook is easy to find as a PDF.

>> No.4356737

>Mathematica in charge of numerical methods

Please, use something that is meant for number crunching instead of symbolic computation.

>> No.4356751

>>4356737
Mathematica does pretty good with non-trivial integrands for numeric integration. In terms of speed, it sure may be not as good as some c++ code with GSL. But it can do a lot of different integration strategies and methods. Also, it's piss-easy to do calculations on clusters or multi-core environments without worrying much about the set-up.