3OK, I lied. Knowing a hundred functions would be nice. Actually, memorizing the names of most functions is not so hard. How hard can it be to remember Cos for cosine, Abs for absolute value, and Total for, well, total? The real work is going to be remembering the syntax needed to use these functions. A good strategy will be to get good at using the built-in documentation.

Get Mathematica DeMYSTiFied now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.