[...] This book is mainly aimed at first-year students and its purpose is to provide them with the basic knowledge about a very powerful tool, for dealing with a large number of mathematical problems that they will encounter throughout their studies.

The material we present is usually taught in Applied Mathematics in the first years. We emphasize that in this book, the presentation of the most basic commands of Mathematica is made, for dealing with the mathematical concepts it deals with, and not the in-depth analysis of all the commands of the package. In other words, our ambition is to give the impetus and opportunity for those who are interested to explore, engage, find and compose commands from the package, in order to adapt it to where they want to achieve the solution to the problem they are facing. [...]

(from the author's preface)