Mathematica and Wolfram | Alpha Pro

Mathematica Availability

Mathematica is currently installed in the following locations:

Computer Labs 

Computer Clusters

  • Georgetown’s Mathematica license allows for grid computing, both on dedicated research clusters and in ad-hoc, or distributed, grid environments. For details, please contact David Stevens at Wolfram Research.

Creating an Account

Note: You will need to create a new account before you can request access to Mathematica Desktop, Mathematica Online, and Wolfram|Alpha Pro.

  1. Go to user.wolfram.com and click Create Account.
  2. Fill out form using a @georgetown.edu email, and click Create Wolfram ID.
  3. Check your email and then click the link to validate your Wolfram ID.

Requesting Access to Mathematica Desktop (Faculty)

For University-Owned/Managed Computers

  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 then select Download next to your platform.
  4. Run the installer on your machine, and then enter your Activation Key at the prompt.

For Personally-Owned Computers

Fill out the Site Home-Use Mathematica License Request Form to request a home-use license from Wolfram.

Requesting Access to Mathematica Desktop (Students)

For Personally-Owned Computers

  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 then select Download next to your platform.
  4. Run the installer on your machine, and then enter your Activation Key at the prompt.

Requesting Access to Mathematica Online (Faculty and Students)

  1. Fill out this form to request access.
  2. Go to Mathematica Online and then sign in to access Mathematica Online.

Requesting Access to Wolfram|Alpha Pro (Faculty and Students)

  1. Fill out this form to request access.
  2. Go to Wolfram|Alpha and then click Sign in to access Wolfram|Alpha Pro.

Are you interested in putting Mathematica elsewhere? Please let IT or David Stevens 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.

Hands-on Start to Wolfram Mathematica

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Examples by Topic
Explore the immense range of areas covered by Wolfram|Alpha’s knowledge base.

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 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, Wolfram|Alpha, and other Wolfram technologies in your classroom.

Wolfram|Alpha Pro

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.

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.

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