Mathematica Notebooks

Every file created with Mathematica, which we will call notebooks, is a fully interactive document that combines text, tables, graphics, calculations, animations, music, hypertext and other elements.

For example, this document is a notebook.

Every document automatically builds cells, which are marked on the right end of the line with a big closing blue bracket.

By double clicking on the cell bracket you can close a group of cells in a way that allows you to see only their names. Opening a closed group of  brackets is done the same way.

You can use hyperlinks to jump from one notebook to another.

You can set a style to every cell by using the menu Format/Style Sheet.

Mathematica offers a large range of possibilities for generating high quality documents ready for publication.

Everything in Mathematica Help Browser is presented in the from of notebooks, including the online Mathematica book.

This here is an examplary test. It can be of any font, style, size, colour, etc. They can be selected from the menus Format/Font, Format/Face, ... Special symbols and formulas such as or ∫1/(x^5 - 1) x can be chosen and imported into the text using palettes from the File/Palettes menu.

Tables are easily made by using the Input/Create Table/Matrix/Palette menu.

α^2 - β (α - β) (α + β) α^2 - β^3
α^3 - β α^3 - β^2 (α - β) (α^2 + α β + β^2)

Mathematica allows setting distances between symbols, as well as text alingment - see Format menu.

Like all Mathematica objects, notebook cells and the notebook itself are shown as expressions. You can use the command Show Expression to see the expression text in Mathematica which corresponds to a specified cell.

For example, here is a typical notebook cell:

This is a typical cell.

Mathematica shows the cell as an object as:

Cell["This is a typical cell.", "Text",
  CellFrame->True,
  FontWeight->"Bold",
  FontSlant->"Italic",
  Background->RGBColor[0, 1, 1],
  CellTags->"T.8"]

Created by Mathematica  (October 6, 2007)