An Introduction to Programming with Mathematica

1. An introduction to Mathematica; 2. The Mathematica language; 3. Lists; 4. Functional programming; 5. Procedural programming; 6. Rule-based programming; 7. Recursion; 8. Numerics; 9. Graphics programming; 10. Front-end programming; 11. Examples and applications; 12. Writing packages; Appendix A: how expressions are evaluated; Appendix B: debugging.

Paul R. Wellin directs the Wolfram Education Group at Wolfram Research, where he has worked since 1993. He has taught mathematics at both public school and at the university level for over 12 years. He has given talks, workshops, and seminars around the world on the integration of technical computing and education and has served on numerous government advisory panels on these issue. He is the author of several books on Mathematica. Richard J. Gaylord is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Life member of Clare College at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge England. He has conducted research in theoretical polymer physics and on random walks, as well as in computer simulation modeling in the physical, chemical, biological, economic, and social sciences using Mathematica and is the author of numerous books on Mathematica. Samuel N. Kamin is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are in the area of programming languages, compilers, and run-time code generation. He is the author of several books, including Programming Languages: An Interpreter-Based Approach (1990). More recently, he started an educational technology research group in his department, and has been exploring the development and uses of educational applications for the Tablet PC.

' ... has been revised from cover to cover, with many organizational changes and a substantial amount of new material. It includes coverage up to and including Mathematica 5.1. While the second edition was very well received, the third edition strikes me as an essential document ... I was struck immediately by the lucidity of the prose ...This is not the first book to be written in Mathematica, but it is far and away the most beautiful. From page layout to production quality, the work is on par with any technical text produced by any publisher.' Bruce Torrence, The Mathematica Journal 'there are some 300 books ... about Mathematica in various contexts. If you want an enjoyable introduction to programming, this is the one to get.' Mathematics Today