Mathematica
What is Mathematica? |
Getting Mathematica |
Mathematica at home |
What are the best steps to start using Mathematica?
What is Mathematica?
Mathematica is the world's most powerful global computing environment. Ideal for use in engineering, mathematics, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, and a wide range of other fields, it makes possible a new level of automation in algorithmic computation, interactive manipulation, and dynamic presentation--as well as a whole new way of interacting with the world of data.
Getting Mathematica...
Mathematica is currently installed in the following locations:
- Room 101
- Room 115
- Room 134
- Room 231
- Room 232A
- Room 232B
- Room 242B
- Laptop Cart J
Mathematica can also be installed on:
- Faculty/staff school-owned machines: Installers are available from the TJHSST Tech Team.
- Faculty, staff, and student personally-owned machines: Instructions are available here
Are you interested in putting Mathematica elsewhere? Please let TJ IT or Andy Dorsett know.
Installing Mathematica at home
To install Mathematica on a personally-owned machine, please use the following instructions
- Click on the link for your operating system below. This will redirect you to iodine to authenticate and will then download the installer file for your operating system.
- Once the installer has finished downloading, run it and follow the instructions to install Mathematica on your computer
- After the installer has finished, click on this link to register your copy of Mathematica
- On the Mathematica registration site, click on "continue without signing in".
- put in your name and your tjhsst.edu or fcps.edu email address. MAKE SURE you use your TJ or FCPS email address or your registration will be denied
- Select a Single Machine configuration and the same platform as the download link you used above and then click submit
- Your Mathematica activation key will then be displayed and emailed to the email you provided above.
- Start Mathematica and enter the activation key when prompted. You will then be required to accept the License Agreement.
- Congratulations, you have successfully installed and activated your copy of Mathematica
What are the best steps to start using Mathematica?
If you are brand-new to Mathematica, below are some suggestions on the best ways to get started.
Students
- Watch the "Hands-On Start to Mathematica" tutorial screencast.
- Explore the Learning Center for topics relevant to your interests.
- Launch Mathematica, open the Classroom Assistant, and perform your first few computations.
- You're now ready for the projects that faculty will assign.
Teaching faculty
- Sign up for the "Overview of Mathematica for Education" seminar.
- Explore the Learning Center for topics relevant to your interests.
- Find some prebuilt examples and courseware from the Demonstrations Project, MathWorld, and the Library Archive.
- Assign the above steps in the student section to your classes as homework.
- Sign up for the Faculty Program.
Research faculty
- Sign up for the "Overview of Mathematica for Education" seminar.
- Take other seminars relevant to your work.
- Explore the Learning Center for topics relevant to your interests.
- Go to the Demonstrations Project site to see what's possible.
- Go to the Library Archive for additional resources.
