Wolfram Mathematica
Wolfram Mathematica is a powerful software platform for students, faculty, and staff. It combines symbolic, numerical, and statistical capabilities, making it ideal for exploring mathematical concepts, analyzing data, and developing applications.
How to Get Mathematica
Are you interested in putting Mathematica elsewhere? Please let IT or Andy Dorsett at Wolfram Research know.
- Computer labs — All public and general labs
- Computer clusters — The Mathematica license for ÅÝܽÊÓƵ allows for parallel computing on dedicated research clusters, or in ad-hoc, or distributed grid environments. For details, please contact Andy Dorsett at Wolfram Research.
Mathematica Desktop (school-owned or personal machines)
- Fill out . Use your @commonwealthu.edu email.
- Choose faculty/staff or student.
- Click "Get Mathematica Desktop" and begin the download.
- Sign in to the Wolfram User Portal when prompted. If you don't have a Wolfram ID, choose "Create one" and follow those prompts.
- Find the email with your verification code and enter it. Hit "Continue." Be sure to check your Spam/Junk folder, just in case.
- Complete the form to request your Activation Key and click "Submit."
Mathematica Online and Wolfram|Alpha technologies
- Revisit to Mathematica|Online, Wolfram|Alpha Pro, and Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition
- Choose your correct affiliation (faculty/staff or student).
- Choose the product.
- Follow on-screen directions to register and log-in to the Wolfram Cloud or Wolfram|Alpha.
Tutorials
These tutorials are excellent for new users, and can be assigned to students as homework to learn Mathematica outside of class time.
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.
Use to learn about solving math problems in the Wolfram Language—from basic arithmetic to integral calculus and beyond.
Stephen Wolfram's , including connections to AI and improvements in our core language and resources.
Access ranging from how to create animations to basic syntax information.
Browse Wolfram's .
Learn to use Wolfram Notebooks for computing, programming, generating reports and creating presentations with .
Teaching with Wolfram Technology
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.
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.
Learn how to that combines graphics, calculations, and nicely formatted text, with live calculations or animations.
from a daily-growing collection of interactive visualizations, spanning a remarkable range of topics.
Access on using Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and other Wolfram technologies in your classroom.
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.
Explore what's possible with the , including programming fundamentals and concepts, built-in functions, symbolic expressions, and tips for better, faster coding.
Learn what areas of are useful for specific fields.
for your knowledge and expertise in field-specific disciplines.
