How to Get Mathematica
Mathematica is currently installed in the following locations in computer labs and HPC centers across each campus. For specific information on installations at your school, contact your local site administrator, listed below.
Mathematica can also be installed on:
Campus machines
Installers are available from your local site administrator, listed below.
Faculty and staff personally owned machines
Fill out this form to request a home-use license from Wolfram.
Student personally owned machines
Please also contact your local site administrator, listed below.
Campus contacts
| The College of Wooster Mike Benchoff Senior User Support Specialist Morgan Hall 930 College Mall phone: 330-263-2244 fax: 330-263-2666 mbenchoff@wooster.edu | Denison University Tony Silveira Systems Administrator for Math/CS Information Technology Services, Fellows Hall phone: 740-587-6707 fax: 740-587-6285 silveira@denison.edu | Kenyon College Paul Mollard Director of User Services Olin Chalmers Library 103 College Drive phone: 740-427-5701 fax: 740-427-5824 softwareadmin@kenyon.edu | Oberlin College Chester Andrews Director of Client Services Center for Information Technology 148 West College Street, Level A phone: 440-775-8786 fax: 440-775-8573 chester.andrews@oberlin.edu | Ohio Wesleyan University Dale Brugh Conrades Wetherall Science Center 90 Henry Street phone: 740-368-3530 fax: 740-368-3999 djbrugh@owu.edu |
Are you interested in putting Mathematica elsewhere? Please let IT or Caleigh Mullane at Wolfram Research know.
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.
- What's New in Mathematica 9
Provides examples to help you get started with new functionality in Mathematica 9, including the predictive interface.
- 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.
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 Mathematica, SystemModeler, and other Wolfram technologies.
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 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 in Education—Video tutorial
Learn how to create programs and take advantage of multi-core machines or a dedicated cluster.
- Field-Specific Applications
Learn what areas of Mathematica are useful for specific fields.