Mathematica Software

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: http://colfax.cortland.edu/acsweb/lab_schedule.asp and click on the “search for software” link

• Computer labs maintained by CTS

  If Mathematica is not installed in a particular computer lab, please submit a software request. 

• Faculty and Staff, Campus-owned computers

  Submit a request via the online hardware software request system.

• Faculty and Staff, personally owned machines

  Fill out this form to request a home-use license from Wolfram.

• Student personally owned machines

  Follow the directions below to download from the Wolfram User Portal.

  1. Create an account (New users only):
     1. Go to user.wolfram.com and click "Create Account"
     2. Fill out form using a @cortland.edu email, and click "Create Wolfram ID"
     3. Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID
  2. Request the download and key:
     1. Fill out this form to request an Activation Key
     2. Click the "Product Summary page" link to access your license
     3. Click "Get Downloads" and select "Download" next to your platform
     4. Run the installer on your machine, and enter Activation Key at prompt

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.

• 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