Get access to Mathematica Desktop, Mathematica Online, and Wolfram|Alpha Pro
Mathematica is currently installed in the following locations:
Computer labs
To request Mathematica Desktop, Mathematica Online, and Wolfram|Alpha Pro, follow the directions below.
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Faculty
- Create an account (New users only):
- Go to user.wolfram.com and click "Create Account"
- Fill out form using your Union email address, and click [Create Wolfram ID]
- Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID
- Request access to the product:
| Mathematica Desktop |
Mathematica Online |
For school-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
For a personally owned machine:
- Fill out this form to request a home-use license from Wolfram.
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- Fill out this form to request access
- Go to Mathematica Online and sign in to access Mathematica Online
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| Wolfram|Alpha Pro |
- Fill out this form to request access
- Go to Wolfram|Alpha and click "Sign in" to access Wolfram|Alpha Pro
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Students
- Create an account (New users only):
- Go to user.wolfram.com and click "Create Account"
- Fill out form using your Union email address, and click [Create Wolfram ID]
- Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID
- Request access to the product:
| Mathematica Desktop |
Mathematica Online |
For a personally owned machine:
- 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
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- Fill out this form to request access
- Go to Mathematica Online and sign in to access Mathematica Online
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| Wolfram|Alpha Pro |
- Fill out this form to request access
- Go to Wolfram|Alpha and click "Sign in" to access Wolfram|Alpha Pro
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Are you interested in putting Mathematica elsewhere? Please let IT or Andy Dorsett at Wolfram Research know.
Tutorials
Mathematica
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.
Wolfram|Alpha Pro
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 slide show 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, Wolfram|Alpha, and other Wolfram technologies in your classroom.
Wolfram|Alpha Pro
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
- Classroom Instruction: Using 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.
- 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.
- 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 HPC and Grid Computing — Free video course
Learn how to create programs that take advantage of multicore machines or available clusters.
- Field-Specific Applications
Learn what areas of Mathematica are useful for specific fields.
If you are having difficulty or you have unanswered questions, please contact the Help Desk through the ITS Service Catalog or call (518) 388-6400.