Mathematica

Mathematica is currently installed in all open computer labs.  

NKU Computers

Users can install on NKU owned computers via the Self Service Software Center.

Faculty/Staff Work at Home License

Faculty and staff can install on personally owned machines by filling out a home-use request from Wolfram.

Student Download

Students can install on personally owned machines through the Wolfram User Portal.

1. Create an account (New users only):

• Go to user.wolfram.com and click "Create Account"
• Fill out form using an @nku.edu email, and click "Create Wolfram ID"
• Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID

2. Request the download and key:

• Request an Activation Key (form)
• 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

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

Faculty, staff, and students can request access to Mathematica Online following the directions below.

Create an account (New users only):

• Go to user.wolfram.com and click "Create Account"
• Fill out form using a @nku.edu email, and click "Create Wolfram ID"
• Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID

Request access to Mathematica Online:

• Request access (form)
• Go to Wolfram Cloud and click "Mathematica Online" to access Mathematica Online

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.
  
  
• What's New in Mathematica 10
  Provides examples to help you get started with new functionality in Mathematica 10, including machine learning, computational geometry, geographic computation, and device connectivity.
  
  
• How To Topics
  Access step-by-step instructions ranging from how to create animations to basic syntax information.
  
  
• Learning Center
  Search Wolfram's large collection of materials for example calculations or tutorials in your field of interest.
   

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.
   

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

• Mathematica for University Research—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.



• Utilizing 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.