The software presented in the book contains a number of useful and effective receptions of the procedural and functional programming in Mathematica that extend the system software and allow sometimes much more efficiently and easily to program the software for various purposes. Among them there are means that are of interest from the point of view of including of their or their analogs in Mathematica, at the same time they use approaches, rather useful in programming of various applications. In addition, it must be kept in mind that the classification of the presented tools by their appointment in a certain measure has a rather conditional character because these tools can be crossed substantially among themselves by the functionality.
The freeware package MathToolBox containing more 1420 tools is attached to the present book. The MathToolBox not only contains a number of useful procedures and functions, but can serve as a rather useful collection of programming examples using both standard and non–standard techniques of functional–procedural programming.
The book is oriented on a wide enough circle of the users from computer mathematics systems, researchers, teachers and students of universities for courses of computer science, physics, mathematics, and a lot of other natural disciplines. The book will be of interest also to the specialists of industry and technology which use the computer mathematics systems in own professional activity. At last, the book is a rather useful handbook with fruitful methods on the procedural and functional programming in the Mathematica system.
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Systems of computer mathematics (SCM) find wide enough application in a whole number of natural, economic and social sciences such as: technologies, chemistry, informatics, mathematics, physics, education, economics, sociology, etc. Systems Mathematica and Maple, and some others are more and more demanded for learning of mathematically oriented disciplines, in scientifical researches and technologies. SCM are main tools for scientists, teachers, researchers, and engineers. The investigations on the basis of SCM, as a rule, well combine algebraical methods with advanced computing methods. In this sense, SCM are a certain interdisciplinary area between informatics and mathematics in which researches will be concentrated on the development of algorithms for algebraic (symbolical) and numerical calculations, data processing, and development of programming languages along with software for realization of algorithms of this kind and problems of different purpose basing on them.
It is possible to note that among modern SCM the leading positions are undoubtedly taken by the Maple and Matematica systems, alternately being ahead of each other on this or that indicator. The given statement is based on our long–term use in different purposes of both systems – Maple and Mathematica and also work on preparation and edition of the book series and some papers in Russian and English in this direction [1-42]. At the same time, as a result of expanded use of the above systems were created the package MathToolBox for Mathematica and library UserLib6789 for Maple [16,42]. All tools from the above library and package are supplied with freeware license and have open program code. Programming of many projects in Maple and Mathematica substantially promoted emergence of a lot of system tools from the above library and package. So, openness of MathToolBox package code allows both to modify the tools containing in it, and to program on their basis own tools, or to use their components in various appendices. Experience of use of library and package showed efficiency of such approach.
In particular, MathToolBox package contains more than 1420 tools of different purpose which eliminate restrictions of a number of standard tools of Mathematica system, and expand its software with new tools. In this context, this package can serve as a certain additional tool of procedural and functional programming, especially useful in the numerous appendices where certain nonstandard evaluations have to accompany programming. At that, tools represented in this package have a direct relationship to certain principal questions of procedural and functional programming in Mathematica system, not only for the decision of applied problems, but, above all, for creation of software extending frequently used facilities of the system, eliminating their defects or extending Mathematica with new facilities. The software presented in the package contains a lot of rather useful and effective receptions of programming in the Mathematica, and extends its software that allows to program the tasks of various purpose more simply and more effectively. A number of tools of the given package is used in the examples illustrating these or those provisions of the book.
