The goals of this book, the third edition of Mathematica Navigator: Mathematics, Statistics, Graphics, and
Programming, are as follows:
• to introduce the reader to Mathematica; and
• to emphasize mathematics (especially methods of applied mathematics), statistics, graphics,
programming, and writing mathematical documents.
Accordingly, we navigate the reader through Mathematica and give an overall introduction. Often we
slow down somewhat when an important or interesting topic of mathematics or statistics is encountered
to investigate it in more detail. We then often use both graphics and symbolic and numerical methods.
Here and there we write small programs to make the use of some procedures easier. One chapter is
devoted to Mathematica as an advanced environment of writing mathematical documents.
The online version of the book, which can be installed from the enclosed CD-ROM, makes the
material easily available when working with Mathematica.
Changes in this third edition are numerous and are explained later in the Preface. The current edition
is based on Mathematica 6. On the CD-ROM, there is material that describes the new properties of
Mathematica 7.
