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Mathematica Cookbook |  | Author: Sal Mangano
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 131616
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 832
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.9 x 1.8
ISBN: 0596520999
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780596520991
ASIN: 0596520999
Publication Date: May 5, 2010
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Product Description
Mathematica Cookbook helps you master the application's core principles by walking you through real-world problems. Ideal for browsing, this book includes recipes for working with numerics, data structures, algebraic equations, calculus, and statistics. You'll also venture into exotic territory with recipes for data visualization using 2D and 3D graphic tools, image processing, and music. Although Mathematica 7 is a highly advanced computational platform, the recipes in this book make it accessible to everyone -- whether you're working on high school algebra, simple graphs, PhD-level computation, financial analysis, or advanced engineering models. - Learn how to use Mathematica at a higher level with functional programming and pattern matching
- Delve into the rich library of functions for string and structured text manipulation
- Learn how to apply the tools to physics and engineering problems
- Draw on Mathematica's access to physics, chemistry, and biology data
- Get techniques for solving equations in computational finance
- Learn how to use Mathematica for sophisticated image processing
- Process music and audio as musical notes, analog waveforms, or digital sound samples
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Don't lose time, just pick out your code! June 15, 2010
Teddy (Albany, Troy)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The story doesnt end with the printed paperback (USD 64.99 original price, ouch!), the author has launched a homepage at mathematicacookbookDOTcom to accompany the book. An excellent idea to support (the interest of) its readers for the time to come. The book is basically a compilation of the most important Mathematica HowTo's (selected from the original source/resource: guide/HowToTopics!!) and spiced with the author's original recipe codes in an applied manner. If you want to use the recipe codes from the text you will have to rewrite most/all of it from scratch while adopting the idea or core algorithm from the examples. The main difference between the original Mathematica guide/HowToTopics and the Oreilly version is that the latter features longer, more complicated and full solutional codes to a specific task (or 'problem'). As just mentioned, you cannot just copy the code, change a few Bytes and ready you are. No. You *must* rewrite everything. By doing so, you will learn a lot though.. especially if you had some trouble understanding other books on the same topic. I agree with some other amazon reviewer in that, if time permits, first and foremost reading should be the amazing installed 'Virtual Book' ( which includes howto/* and tutorial/* ). After that you can choose between the 'Function Navigator' ( guide/* and ref/* ), the Trott Guidebook, the Mathematica Navigator, and Mathematica Cookbook. Both references are equally wise choices! Btw, included with this book is a free 30 day trial of the latest Wolfram Mathematica® v7.x software. Maybe that's why de book is so expensive. Anyway, go'n get it now, it's currently the bestselling Mathematica book on amazon! Thanks to the author for publishing an Oreilly cookbook for Mathematica 7, i love it!! :x
recipes for indirect cooking July 10, 2010
Ecomo (Holiday Inn, Santa Cruz, CA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The title suggests that the reader is already acquainted with handling the ingredients: the core programming language plus one of its five possible programming styles. Procedural programming, functional programming, rule-based programming, object-oriented programming, or recursive programming. When you then work on a larger program and get stuck because you forgot about the details of an implementional task, then reaching for a ready-to-use recipe from a cookbook should solve your task? Yes! Nice idea. The book offers hundreds of fine recipes, always in the typical Mathematica one-liner program format and all classified into easy-identifiable subject areas. So the problem is not finding out whether the book covers the implementional task or on which exact page to locate it. You will very quickly figure it out - the book is perfectly organized this way, for this purpose. And once found, the interested programmer should be able to adopt the recipe's code or idea. No. The true problem with the book and its collection of recipes is ..etc.. Anyway. I welcome Mangano's work. In an indirect way it teaches a lot of wisdom on practical and every-day-use programming, even if the suggested codes not always represent the most efficient codification possible. In comparison, if efficiency and code perfectionism matters, another notable new book in this area (Programming with Mathematica 6.0/7.0, Mathematica As A Programming Language) is Leonid Shifrin's publication (googel, wiki) which, too, contains collections of 'Recipes' (in an effort to be fair and overly modest, he calls them simply 'examples'). Shifrin explains more the intermediate steps (typical one-liner programs) how to get to the final readycode, and in addition, presents several(!) alternative implementations (written in the same programming paradigm with a refined or optimized algorithm/idea, or written in one of the four other programming paradigms) of the same 'Recipe' which are much more efficient and thus, suitable to RL large-scale applications. Shifrin starts where Mangano stops! Depending on your level of programming expertise the one book or the other suits your needs better, so check them out both :) I highly recommend Mangano's book, and even higher Leonid Shifrin book.
book is available in *.nb-format, too!!! June 18, 2010
Mark Twain (Florida, MO USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Mathematical scientists probably prefer Weisstein's The CRC Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Third Edition (3 volumes incl. code for Mathematica 7.0) for their research work, true fans adore the sheer thoroughness of Trott's Mathematica Guidebook and study the details page-after-page by working the way up from the bottom through all 4 volumes, total beginners and hasty users are content with a shallow but broad(!) introduction found in Mathematica Navigator, and for all remaining Mathematica practicionists Mangano's tome comes in handy as a helpful complement to the existing Tutorial Collection, see bit.ly/TheMathematicaBook . I've been knowing the software for quite some time and for my engineering studies it never meant more to me than an overpowered calculator but since the book is currently being sold in mass quantities at our campus bookstore I got re-interested too! About the contents: Each recipe has the same setup structure (problem,solution,discussion,reference) and is independent from other recipes apart from incidental crossreferences within the book. Some recipes (there arent too many in total actually) are more general (true recipes), some just explain the use of important key functions (because many users still would not know their use or meaning ;), and some are solutions to very specific problems, so all in all a good mix to learn from! Much material has been compiled and quoted from others but the author would always mention the references in detail or link to them (i didnt know bit.ly before, thanks! ;). The book offers everything a modern book should offer: a personal book webpage with additional and updated contents, a publisher's webpage with eventual typographical errors, the software itself (a Mathematica version is included!), a *.pdf-ebook version, a colorful fulltext *.nb-Mathematica notebook version, support by the makers, etc. So. I dont think that I will actually put the recipes into practice for my mundane mathematical calculations in place of some old TI calc but simply reading and understanding the refined tricks is so instructive, enjoyable and inspiring. All persons involved did a fantastic job with this product release, congrats!
finally a new (and strong!) addition on the book market June 8, 2010
placebo
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Every year the market sees several updated editions or totally new book products for Matlab and Maple so their users are spoilt for choice of books. Mathematica crawls far behind on third place: the Wolfram website lists 192 books in English language with title word 'Mathematica' published since 1990 (amazon lists 694 relevant book hits for Matlab, 405 for Maple). Less users, less appz, less community, and less books. Oh well. Finally, Mathematica users are happy to see a new addition on the market. And lemme call it the strongest one since the publication of Michael Trott's book! Uptodate (is for Mathematica V7.0), modern, and comprehensive in the discussion of the presented recipes and code structure. For hardly any piece of software ive ever cared about RTFM or reading the installed help system. Besides, installed online help is rarely meant to be read thru like a book, chapter by chapter, or from page 1 to Z. For that purpose experienced third party authors write thousands of bestselling books on Excel, Matlab, and Maple, which help you get started and then accompany you for the rest of a version release. With Mathematica the story turns out different. The best and most complete book is already found installed on the computer: the incredible, unbelievable 760MB-sized online help system devised by the makers of Mathematica, a sophisticated easyn fast-to-read documentation which was never since surpassed by any published book. And in order to make good use of the Oreilly Cookbook the full online help, most notably the Virtual Book, is mandatory reading first! Mangano's is an exciting new book release tailored to the functionality of Mathematica V7.0 with fine details on the harder powerful commands all packed within a limited number (234) of recipes. I wish the book contained four times as many recipes, see for example 1,000 Recipes Tips & Tricks, so dont be disappointed if you dont find but a modest number of relevant tips for your area of interest (e.g. tensor calculus, optimization, functional programming, foreign language, dance). Also, you will look in vain for an extended chapter or recipe treating the use of pure functions, although they are used in the book from the very beginning virtuoso-like (quadruple nested pure functions, etc.). Sure, a cookbook is not meant to replace an introtext, so certain experience with the programming and language styles possible in Mathematica is required otherwise you wont be able to understand/read the fine beautiful program codes worked in the book. Google helps to fi** PDF e-copies of the book ---amongst other google hits the publisher's PDF sales offer--- so before buying the hardcopy make sure that you are already capable of reading some Mathematica code. Anyway, unlike with other PDF e-books i am going to keep dis one .. to be recycled by the time our library carries a print version of it. For a broader treatment and coverage of Mathematica commands and functions check out Ste. Wolfram's The Mathematica Book (is for Mathematica V5.0) or Mi. Trott's The Mathematica GuideBook (is for Mathematica V4.0, compatible with V5.0). Both books treat more subjects, virtually all(!) 3000 commands, than the 234 recipes of the cookbook. And if you are a total beginner too lazy to read the online help such as the Virtual Book with its tutorials and howto's, the Function Navigator with its overviews, guides, and references, then Rüskepääs Mathematica Navigator (is for Mathematica V6.0), which is in essence nothing else than a summary or abridged repetition of the original The Mathematica Book, might be worth a peek, good luck! Even if i dont think that this REVIEW was very helpful, i do think that the BOOK is very helpful. Having stated all that blah blub, I am continuing now to work with Mangano's book as the first/best book choice for Mathematica V7.0. See ya.
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