What is Mathematica
Mathematica is a computational software program, integrating computation into complete workflows, used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing. To read more about Mathematica’s full scale use go to: http://www.wolfram.com
How to Get Mathematica
Mathematica is currently installed in some of the computer labs across campus. To find out where the software is installed go here.
Computer Labs and Campus-Owned Computers
If Mathematica is not installed in a particular lab or computer, please submit a software request.
Student, Faculty, and Staff Personally-Owned Computers
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Go to https://www.wolfram.com/siteinfo/ and enter your full Cortland email address e.g. first.lastname@cortland.edu
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Download Wolfram Mathematica from the portal for your Operating System
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Install Wolfram Mathematica
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Once installed, launch Mathematica
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You will be prompted to activate your license
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Click on the Sign In button under Activate through your organization (SSO)
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Sign in with your full Cortland email address and password.
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It should successfully activate
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Once activated, you can now use Mathematica
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If Mathematica says that it cannot authenticate because you are not connected to the internet, please repeat steps 10 through 21
Mathematica Tutorials
The first two tutorials are excellent for new users, and can be assigned to students as homework to learn Mathematica outside of class time.
- Hands-on Start to Mathematica
Follow along in Mathematica as you watch this multi-part screencast that teaches you the basics—how to create your first notebook, calculations, visualizations, interactive examples, and more.
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An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language
This book helps students learn the Wolfram Language, the language of Mathematica, to use it for their own projects.
- How To Topics
Access step-by-step instructions ranging from how to create animations to basic syntax information.
- Learning Center
Search Wolfram's large collection of materials for example calculations or tutorials in your field of interest.
Resources for Educators
Mathematica offers an interactive classroom experience that helps students explore and grasp concepts, plus gives faculty the tools they need to easily create supporting course materials, assignments, and presentations.
- Mathematica for Teaching and Education—Free video course
Learn how to make your classroom dynamic with interactive models, explore computation and visualization capabilities in Mathematica that make it useful for teaching practically any subject at any level, and get best-practice suggestions for course integration.
- How To Create a Lecture Slideshow—Video tutorial
Learn how to create a slideshow for class that shows a mixture of graphics, calculations, and nicely formatted text, with live calculations or animations.
- Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Download pre-built, open-code examples from a daily-growing collection of interactive visualizations, spanning a remarkable range of topics.
- Wolfram Training Education Courses
Access on-demand and live courses on Mathematica, SystemModeler, and other Wolfram technologies.
Resources for researchers
Rather than requiring different toolkits for different jobs, Mathematica integrates the world's largest collection of algorithms, high-performance computing capabilities, and a powerful visualization engine in one coherent system, making it ideal for academic research in just about any discipline.
- Mathematica for University Research—Free video course
Explore Mathematica's high-level and multi-paradigm programming language, support for parallel computing and GPU architectures, built-in functionality for specialized application areas, and multiple publishing and deployment options for sharing your work.
- Utilizing HPC and Grid Computing—Free video course
Learn how to create programs that take advantage of multicore machines or available clusters.
- Field-Specific Applications
Learn what areas of Mathematica are useful for specific fields.
Wolfram Function Repository
The Function Repository is the go-to place for functions that aren't already built into the Wolfram Language. It contains a wide variety of new functions submitted by our talented user community and Wolfram staff, all immediately accessible from Wolfram Language 12. Any user can submit a function for review and publication using the Function Resource Definition Notebook, extending the Wolfram Language one function at a time with no need to create or download large libraries.
Wolfram Function Repository