Installing Mathematica 13

Access to Mathematica Desktop, Mathematica Online and Wolfram|Alpha Pro

Computer clusters - The Mathematica license for Millersville allows for parallel computing, both on dedicated research clusters and in ad-hoc, or distributed, grid environments. For more 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 @millersville.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:

    For school-owned machines:

    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

    For a personally owned machine:

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


    1. Fill out this form to request access
    2. Go to Mathematica Online and sign in to access Mathematica Online


    1. Fill out this form to request access
    2. Go to Wolfram|Alpha and click "Sign in" to access Wolfram|Alpha Pro


    1. Fill out this form to request access
    2. 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 @millersville.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:

    For a personally owned machine:

    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


    1. Fill out this form to request access
    2. Go to Mathematica Online and sign in to access Mathematica Online


    1. Fill out this form to request access
    2. Go to Wolfram|Alpha and click "Sign in" to access Wolfram|Alpha Pro


    1. Fill out this form to request access
    2. Go to Wolfram Programming Lab and sign in to access Wolfram Programming Lab



Tutorials

Mathematica

These tutorials are excellent for new users, and can be assigned to students as homework to learn Mathematica outside of class time.

  • Hand-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.



    • What's New in Mathematica 12

      Provides a list of new functionality in Mathematica 12, and links to documentation and examples for these new features—including blockchain management, 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.






Teaching with 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.

Resources for educators

  • 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 MathematicaSystemModeler, and other Wolfram technologies.

Wolfram|Alpha Pro

    • Discovering the Educational Potential of 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

  • 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.