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Wolfram's The Mathematica Book is a great reference and has some good examples for learning Mathematica (plus, used editions are really cheap: http://www.amazon
by nswanberg 13y ago
Wolfram's The Mathematica Book is a great reference and has some good examples for learning Mathematica (plus, used editions are really cheap: http://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=mathematica+book http://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=mathematica+book) You can look at the contents online to see if it clicks with you: http://reference.wolfram.com/legacy/v5/ http://reference.wolfram.com/legacy/v5/
Mathematica Cookbook is also a nice reference. The book is much less systematic, but provides code that solves more realistic problems than the Mathematica documentation.
- GregBuchholz 13y agoThanks. Is the language pretty stable, but the libraries are what mostly changes between Mathematica releases? Or is there much obsolete stuff in version 5 that's not present in version 9 or 10?
- nswanberg 13y agoThere's very little that's obsolete. The newer versions almost exclusively bring additions.
- GregBuchholz 13y agoGood to know. It makes sense that for a proprietary language implementation you need to bump major versions on a more regular basis. Perl 1.0 has some significant differences from perl 5.18.0.