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Mathematica is currently installed in the following locations:

Computer labs

All general and public labs.


Computer clusters

Frostburg State's Mathematica license allows for parallel computing on dedicated research clusters and in ad-hoc, or distributed, grid environments. For details, please contact Troy Schaudt.



To request Mathematica Desktop, Mathematica Online, Wolfram|Alpha Pro, and Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition, 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 @frostburg.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:Faculty: Get Mathematica
    Mathematica Desktop Mathematica Online
    For school-owned machines:
    1. Fill out this form (Desktop) 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 (personally owned) to request a home-use license from Wolfram.
    1. Fill out this form (Online) to request access
    2. Go to Mathematica Online and sign in to access Mathematica Online
    Wolfram|Alpha Pro
    1. Fill out this form (Alpha Pro) to request access
    2. Go to Wolfram|Alpha and click "Sign in" to access Wolfram|Alpha Pro
    Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition
    For school-owned or personally owned machines:
    1. Fill out this form (Alpha Notebook) to request an Activation Key
    2. Go to user.wolfram.com to access your license
    3. Select your platform next to "Download" to download installer
    4. Run the installer on your machine, and enter Wolfram ID at prompt

Students

  1. Create an account (New users only):
    1. Go to user.wolfram.com and click "Create Account"
    2. Fill out form using a @frostburg.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:Student: Get mathematicaMathematica Desktop
    Mathematica Online
    For personally-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
    1. Fill out this form to request access
    2. Go to Mathematica Online and sign in to access Mathematica Online
    Wolfram|Alpha Pro
    1. Fill out this form to request access
    2. Go to Wolfram|Alpha and click "Sign in" to access Wolfram|Alpha Pro
    Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition
    For school-owned or personally owned machines:
    1. Fill out this form to request an Activation Key
    2. Go to user.wolfram.com to access your license
    3. Select your platform next to "Download" to download installer
    4. Run the installer on your machine, and enter Wolfram ID at prompt

Are you interested in putting Mathematica elsewhere? Please let IT or Troy Schaudt at Wolfram Research know.


Tutorials

Mathematica

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



    • 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.



Wolfram|Alpha Pro

    • Tour of Wolfram|Alpha

      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.


Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition




Teaching with Wolfram Technology

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.


    • Teaching and Learning with Mathematica—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.


    • Preparing and Giving Presentations

      Learn how to create a slideshow presentation that combines 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|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.


      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.


        • Introduction to Parallel Computation in the Wolfram Language—Free video course

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