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System Requirements: [click here for latest
License Type: Site License – PA State System of Higher Education
License Valid: 30-JUN-2022 - 30-JUN-2023
Software Version: 13.0.1

What is Mathematica: "At a superficial level, Mathematica is an amazing, yet easy-to-use calculator. The world's most comprehensive set of mathematical, scientific, engineering, and financial functions is ready-to-use--often with just one mouse click or command. However, Mathematica functions work for any size or precision of number, compute with symbols, are easily represented graphically, automatically switch algorithms to get the best answer, and even check and adjust the accuracy of their own results. This sophistication means trustworthy answers every time, even for those inexperienced with the mechanics of a particular calculation."  [Read More]
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On Campus Use Only

If you wish to have Mathematica installed at your office or lab location please contact the helpdesk at extension x2640 or techsupport@pennwest.edu . Please indicate on your request when and where you would like this installed. A technician will be in touch to coordinate the installation.

Home Use (faculty/staff/students)

To request Mathematica Desktop, Mathematica Online, and Wolfram|Alpha Pro, follow the directions below.

*Existing users who have single-machine activation keys that are marked as "auto renew" will have their activation keys automatically extended through your next renewal date of 30-JUN-2023

Users whose activation keys are not automatically extended will be sent an email with instructions for requesting a new activation key from Wolfram.

Employees with home-use licenses will be sent an email with instructions to extend their licenses.

Thank you, and please contact us with questions.
Sincerely,
Wolfram Customer Support

Faculty
  1. For a personally owned machine:
  2. Request access to Wolfram|Alpha Pro:
  3. Request Mathematica for school-owned machines:
    • Fill out this form to request an Activation Key
    • Click the "Product Summary page" link to access your license
    • Click "Get Downloads" and select "Download" next to your platform
    • Run the installer on your machine, and enter Activation Key at prompt
  4. Request Mathematica for a personally owned machine:
  5. Mathematica Online
  6. Wolfram Programming Lab
Students
  1. Create an account (New users only):
    • Go to user.wolfram.com and click "Create Account"
    • Fill out form using a @pennwest.edu email, and click "Create Wolfram ID"
    • Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID
  2. Request access to Wolfram|Alpha Pro:
  3. Request Mathematica for a personally owned machine:
    • Fill out this form to request an Activation Key
    • Click the "Product Summary page" link to access your license
    • Click "Get Downloads" and select "Download" next to your platform
    • Run the installer on your machine, and enter Activation Key at prompt
  4. Mathematica Online
  5. Wolfram Programming Lab

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Tutorials

Mathematica

These 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 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.

Use this tutorial to learn about solving math problems in the Wolfram Language—from basic arithmetic to integral calculus and beyond.

Provides a list of new functionality in Mathematica, 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.

Access step-by-step instructions ranging from how to create animations to basic syntax information.

Browse Wolfram's large collection of learning materials and support resources.

Learn to use Wolfram Notebooks for computing, programming, generating reports and creating presentations with this interactive course.

Wolfram|Alpha Pro

New to Wolfram|Alpha? Take a tour to learn what you can do with Wolfram|Alpha, and explore additional features you get with Wolfram|Alpha Pro.

Explore the immense range of areas covered by Wolfram|Alpha's knowledge base.

Wolfram Programming Lab

This tutorial will give you what you need to read and understand almost any Wolfram Language code and to get started doing Wolfram Language programming yourself.

Learn the Wolfram Language and modern computational thinking from Stephen Wolfram's book.

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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

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.

Learn how to create a slideshow presentation that combines graphics, calculations, and nicely formatted text, with live calculations or animations.

Download pre-built, open-code examples from a daily-growing collection of interactive visualizations, spanning a remarkable range of topics.

Access on-demand and live courses on using Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and other Wolfram technologies in your classroom.

Wolfram|Alpha Pro

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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

Explore what's possible with the Wolfram Language, including programming fundamentals and concepts, built-in functions, symbolic expressions, and tips for better, faster coding.

Learn how to create programs that take advantage of multicore machines or available clusters.

Learn what areas of Mathematica are useful for specific fields.

Note:
PennWest Clarion offers this software as a convenience for home use and cannot guarantee suitability of this product with your home system nor provide technical support on its installation or use. If you have any questions regarding this product or its installation, please refer to Wolfram Research's support web site

Last Updated 8/22/22