Wellin Paul R., Kamin Sam, Gaylord Richard. An Introduction to Programming with Mathematica

Third Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 556 p.An Introduction to Programming with Mathematica is designed to introduce the Mathematica programming language to a wide audience. Since the last edition of this book was published, significant changes have occurred in Mathematica and its use worldwide. Keeping pace with these changes, this substantially larger, updated version includes new and revised chapters on numerics, procedural, rule-based, and front-end programming, and gives significant coverage to the latest features up to, and including, Mathematica 5.1Mathematica software system of Wolfram Research Inc. is described. Detailed treatment includes 12 chapters, 2 Appendixes and solutions to exercises. Alongside foundations of "powerful calculator" programming facilities of Mathematica are strongly emphasized.Mathematica notebooks, available from cambridge.org, contain examples, programs, and solutions to exercises in the book. Additionally, material to supplement later versions of the software will be made available. This is the ideal text for all scientific students, researchers, and programmers wishing to deepen their understanding of Mathematica, or even those keen to program using an interactive language that contains programming paradigms from all major programming languages: procedural, functional, recursive, rule-based, and object-oriented.