How to Get Mathematica

Mathematica can be installed on:

• University Owned Laptops

  Follow the directions below to download software from Wolfram and request the appropriate activation key. 

  1. Create an account (New users only):
     
     1. Go to user.wolfram.com and click "Create Account"
     2. Fill out form using a @uncp.edu email, and click "Create Wolfram ID"
     3. Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID
  2. Request the download and key:
     
     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
        
         

• Faculty and staff personally owned machines

  Fill out this form to request a home-use license from Wolfram.

• Student personally owned machines

  Follow the directions below to download from the Wolfram User Portal. 

  1. Create an account (New users only):
     
     1. Go to user.wolfram.com and click "Create Account"
     2. Fill out form using a @uncp.edu email, and click "Create Wolfram ID"
     3. Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID
  2. Request the download and key:
     
     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

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

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.

• Hands-on Start to Mathematica (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.

• Hands-on Start to Wolfram Mathematica and Programming with the Wolfram Language (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.

• 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.

• What's New in Mathematica 11

  Provides a list of new functionality in Mathematica 11, and links to documentation and examples for these new features—including 3D printing, 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.

• Mathematica Resources

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

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

• Mathematica for Teaching and Education—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.
  
   
• How To Create a Lecture Slideshow—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.

• Wolfram Demonstrations Project

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

• Wolfram Training Education Courses

  Access on-demand and live courses on Mathematica, SystemModeler, and other Wolfram technologies.