Mathematica

IMPORTANT NOTE: The following instruction is for faculty and students on personally owned devices. Those using a university owned desktop/laptop should be using Software Center.

Get access to Mathematica Desktop, Mathematica Online, Wolfram|Alpha Pro, and Wolfram Programming Lab

Mathematica is currently installed in the following locations:

Computer labs

• All general and public labs

Computer clusters

• The Mathematica license at Bloomsburg allows for parallel computing, both on dedicated research clusters and in ad-hoc, or distributed, grid environments. For details, please contact Andy Dorsett at adorsett@wolfram.com.

To request Mathematica Desktop, Mathematica Online, and Wolfram|Alpha Pro, follow the directions below.

• Faculty

  1. Create an account (New users only):
     1. Go to user.wolfram.com and click "Create Account"
     2. Fill out form using a @bloomu.edu email, and click "Create Wolfram ID"
     3. Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID
  2. Request access to the product:
     

     Mathematica Desktop	Mathematica Online
     For school-owned machines: Fill out this form to request an Activation Key Click the "Product Summary page" link to access your license Click "Get Downloads" and select "Download" next to your platform Run the installer on your machine, and enter Activation Key at prompt For a personally owned machine: Fill out this form to request a home-use license from Wolfram.	Fill out this form to request access Go to Mathematica Online and sign in to access Mathematica Online
     	Wolfram|Alpha Pro
     	Fill out this form to request access Go to Wolfram|Alpha and click "Sign in" to access Wolfram|Alpha Pro
     	Wolfram Programming Lab
     	Fill out this form to request access Go to Wolfram Programming Lab and sign in to access Wolfram Programming Lab




• Students

  1. Create an account (New users only):
     1. Go to user.wolfram.com and click "Create Account"
     2. Fill out form using a @bloomu.edu email, and click "Create Wolfram ID"
     3. Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID
  2. Request access to the product:
     

     Mathematica Desktop	Mathematica Online
     For a personally owned machine: Fill out this form to request an Activation Key Click the "Product Summary page" link to access your license Click "Get Downloads" and select "Download" next to your platform Run the installer on your machine, and enter Activation Key at prompt	Fill out this form to request access Go to Mathematica Online and sign in to access Mathematica Online
     	Wolfram|Alpha Pro
     	Fill out this form to request access Go to Wolfram|Alpha and click "Sign in" to access Wolfram|Alpha Pro
     	Wolfram Programming Lab
     	Fill out this form to request access Go to Wolfram Programming Lab and sign in to access Wolfram Programming Lab

Are you interested in putting Mathematica elsewhere? Please let IT or Andy Dorsett at Wolfram Research know.

Tutorials

Mathematica

The first four 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 Wolfram Mathematica

  This tutorial helps you get started with Mathematica—learn how to create your first notebook, run calculations, generate visualizations, create interactive models, analyze data, and more.

  • Free online course with live Q&A
  • Book available in paperback or Kindle form
  • Free on-demand training video for desktop users
  • Free on-demand training video for Mathematica Online users
• Mathematica & Wolfram Language Fast Introduction for Math Students (online book)

  Use this tutorial to learn about solving math problems in the Wolfram Language—from basic arithmetic to integral calculus and beyond.

• What's New in Mathematica 11

  Provides a list of new functionality in Mathematica 11, and links to documentation and examples for these new features—including 3D printing, audio processing, machine learning and neural networks, and text and language processing.

• How To Topics

  Access step-by-step instructions ranging from how to create animations to basic syntax information.

• Mathematica Resources

  Browse Wolfram's large collection of learning materials and support resources.

Wolfram Programming Lab

• The Wolfram Language: Fast Introduction for Programmers (online book)

  This tutorial will give you what you need to read and understand almost any Wolfram Language code and to get started doing Wolfram Language programming yourself.

• An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language (online book and interactive open course)

  Learn the Wolfram Language and modern computational thinking from Stephen Wolfram's book.

Teaching with Wolfram Technology

Mathematica

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.

• Teaching and Learning with Mathematica—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.

• Preparing and Giving Presentations

  Learn how to create a slideshow presentation that combines 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 U Courses on Classroom Resources & Instruction

  Access on-demand and live courses on using Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and other Wolfram technologies in your classroom.

Wolfram|Alpha Pro

• Classroom Instruction: Using Wolfram|Alpha—Free video course

  Get an overview of Wolfram|Alpha and learn how to integrate its powerful knowledge into the K-12 classroom. Different ways of accessing Wolfram|Alpha, using prebuilt widgets in your classroom, and resources available to educators will be discussed.

• Wolfram|Alpha in Your Classroom—Free virtual workshop for educators

  This workshop showed off many exciting new Wolfram|Alpha features for students and teachers. Learn how to use Wolfram|Alpha to inspire authentic learning in your classroom with access to real-world data.

• Calculus Webinar for Educators—Free video webinar

  Explore functions and their derivatives, integrals and limits using the Wolfram Language. This session shows practice problems with the Wolfram Problem Generator and lesson plans and tips on using Wolfram|Alpha in your calculus classroom.

• Physics Webinar for Educators—Free video webinar

  Learn about using Wolfram|Alpha for your physics class computations to complement your existing curricula. Interesting blog posts and online resources are shared that help foster curiosity in areas such as mechanics, particle physics, optics and others.

• Economics Webinar for Educators—Free video webinar

  Access a wide range of socioeconomic and demographic data, currency computations, financial indicators and country data using natural language input. Create stunning visualizations and examine financial equations such as mortgage and annuity through rigorous algorithms.

Wolfram Programming Lab

• Exploring Programming—Free virtual workshop for educators

  In this free online workshop we discuss methods for introducing computational thinking and programming activities to middle and high school students. We also discuss specific activities that support and introduce computational thinking.

• Computational Thinking in the Classroom—Free virtual workshop for educators

  Future coders will be engineers, chemists, business analysts — and the list goes on. This workshop introduces Wolfram Language programming and covers classroom coding activities to help teachers incorporate programming into their curriculum.

Research with Mathematica

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.

Resources for researchers

• Mathematica: Ultimate Research Environment—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.

• Wolfram Language Training Courses—Free video courses

  Explore what's possible with the Wolfram Language, including programming fundamentals and concepts, built-in functions, symbolic expressions, and tips for better, faster coding.

• Introduction to 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.