Mathematica for Faculty and Staff

How to Get Mathematica
Mathematica Tutorials
Teaching with Mathematica
Research with Mathematica

How to Get Mathematica

Research Clusters

The Mathematica license at Illinois Tech allows for parallel computing on dedicated research clusters and in ad-hoc, or distributed, grid environments. For details, please contact supportdesk@iit.edu

Desktops

To request Mathematica Desktop and Mathematica Online, follow the directions below.

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

Mathematica Desktop

University-owned Devices

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

Personally Owned Machine

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

Mathematica Online

Fill out this form to request access
Go to Mathematica Online and sign in to access Mathematica Online

Other

If you are you interested in putting Mathematica somewhere else, please contact the OTS Support Desk.

Mathematica Tutorials

The first four 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.

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 quickly 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 U Courses on Classroom Resources & Instruction

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

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.

Mathematica: Ultimate Research Environment — 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.