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Mathematica

华体会 has licensed  from . Mathematica is a powerful software program used in several disciplines and other areas of technical computing; it can do statistical analysis, manipulate images and video, do large computations and much more.

How to Get Mathematica

  • Mathematica is currently installed in all general or public-access labs. Many departmental labs have Mathematica installed as well.
  • 华体会's Mathematica license can be used for grid computing. If you are interested in using Mathematica for parallel computing on a dedicated cluster, or in a distributed grid environment, please let our Lab & Virtual Systems Technician know.

Mathematica can be installed on:

Student personally-owned machines

Employee personally-owned machines

Create an account (New users only):

  1. Go to  and click "Create Account"
  2. Fill out form using a @coloradocollege.edu email, and click "Create Wolfram ID"
  3. Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID

Request the download and key:

  1.  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

Create an account (New users only):

  1. Go to  and click "Create Account"
  2. Fill out form using a @coloradocollege.edu email, and click "Create Wolfram ID"
  3. Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID

Request the download and key:

  1.  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

College-owned machines
Please contact our Lab & Virtual Systems Technician to get Mathematica installed on college-owned computers.

Mathematica Tutorials

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

  •  (videos)

    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.

  •  (book)

    Learn Mathematica at your own pace from authors with 50+ years of combined Mathematica experience-with hands-on examples, end-of-chapter exercises, and authors' tips that introduce you to the breadth of Mathematica with a focus on ease of use.

  • Provides examples to help you get started with new functionality in Mathematica 10, including machine learning, computational geometry, geographic computation, and device connectivity.

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

  • 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.

  • -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.

  • -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.

  • 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 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.

  • -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.

  • -Free video course

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

  • Learn what areas of Mathematica are useful for specific fields.

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