Get access to Mathematica Desktop, Mathematica Online, Wolfram|Alpha Pro, and Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition
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
- Create an account (New users only):
- Go to user.wolfram.com and click "Create Account"
- Fill out form using a @frostburg.edu email, and click "Create Wolfram ID"
- Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID
- Request access to the product:Faculty: Get Mathematica
Mathematica Desktop Mathematica Online For school-owned machines: - Fill out this form (Desktop) 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
- Fill out this form (personally owned) to request a home-use license from Wolfram.
- Fill out this form (Online) to request access
- Go to Mathematica Online and sign in to access Mathematica Online
Wolfram|Alpha Pro - Fill out this form (Alpha Pro) to request access
- Go to Wolfram|Alpha and click "Sign in" to access Wolfram|Alpha Pro
Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition For school-owned or personally owned machines: - Fill out this form (Alpha Notebook) to request an Activation Key
- Go to user.wolfram.com to access your license
- Select your platform next to "Download" to download installer
- Run the installer on your machine, and enter Wolfram ID at prompt
Students
- Create an account (New users only):
- Go to user.wolfram.com and click "Create Account"
- Fill out form using a @frostburg.edu email, and click "Create Wolfram ID"
- Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID
- Request access to the product:Student: Get mathematica
Mathematica Desktop Mathematica Online For personally-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
- Fill out this form to request access
- Go to Mathematica Online and sign in to access Mathematica Online
Wolfram|Alpha Pro - Fill out this form to request access
- Go to Wolfram|Alpha and click "Sign in" to access Wolfram|Alpha Pro
Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition For school-owned or personally owned machines: - Fill out this form to request an Activation Key
- Go to user.wolfram.com to access your license
- Select your platform next to "Download" to download installer
- 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.
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- 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.
- Hands-on Start to Wolfram Mathematica
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- Mathematica & Wolfram Language Fast Introduction for Math Students (online book)
Use this tutorial to learn about solving math problems in the Wolfram Language—from basic arithmetic to integral calculus and beyond.
- Mathematica & Wolfram Language Fast Introduction for Math Students (online book)
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- 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.
- What's New in Mathematica 12
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- How To Topics
Access step-by-step instructions ranging from how to create animations to basic syntax information.
- How To Topics
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- Mathematica Resources
Browse Wolfram's large collection of learning materials and support resources.
- Mathematica Resources
- Introduction to Notebooks (interactive open course)
Learn to use Wolfram Notebooks for computing, programming, generating reports and creating presentations with this interactive course.
Wolfram|Alpha Pro
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- 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.
- Tour of Wolfram|Alpha
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- Examples by Topic
Explore the immense range of areas covered by Wolfram|Alpha's knowledge base.
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Discovering the Educational Potential of Wolfram|Alpha--Free video course
- Introduction to Parallel Computation in the Wolfram Language--Free video course
- Examples by Topic
Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition
- The Wolfram Language: Fast Introduction for Programmers (online book)
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. - Hands-on Start to Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition
Learn the basics of creating interactive notebooks and presentations, using free-form input and step-by-step solutions, and more.Free online course with live Q&A
Free on-demand training video
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.
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- 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.
- Teaching and Learning with Mathematica—Free video course
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- Preparing and Giving Presentations
Learn how to create a slideshow presentation that combines graphics, calculations, and nicely formatted text, with live calculations or animations.
- Preparing and Giving Presentations
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- Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Download pre-built, open-code examples from a daily-growing collection of interactive visualizations, spanning a remarkable range of topics.
- Wolfram Demonstrations Project
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- Wolfram U Courses on Classroom Resources & Instruction
Access on-demand and live courses on using Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and other Wolfram technologies in your classroom.
Wolfram|Alpha Pro
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- 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.
- Discovering the Educational Potential of Wolfram|Alpha—Free video course
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- 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.
- Wolfram|Alpha in Your Classroom—Free virtual workshop for educators
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- 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.
- Calculus Webinar for Educators—Free video webinar
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- 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.
- Physics Webinar for Educators—Free video webinar
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- 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
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- 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.
- Wolfram Language Training Courses—Free video courses
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- 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.
- Introduction to Parallel Computation in the Wolfram Language—Free video course
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- Field-Specific Applications
Learn what areas of Mathematica are useful for specific fields.
- Field-Specific Applications
- Economics Webinar for Educators—Free video webinar
- Wolfram U Courses on Classroom Resources & Instruction