Mathematica

Who Can Access This Software

Faculty, staff, and students

Description

Mathematica is a comprehensive, technical computing environment that allows users to easily work with numerical, symbolic, and graphical information and data. Mathematica is currently available on the UNIX, Mac OS X, and Windows platforms.

Mathematica is particularly useful when working with symbolic notations or manipulating algebraic expressions. Additionally, Mathematica includes significant plotting and graphical visualization tools along with a built-in scripting language.

Features

Teaching with Mathematica

Mathematica offers an interactive classroom experience that helps students explore and grasp concepts, plus it gives faculty the tools they need to easily create supporting course materials, assignments, and presentations.

Resources for educators

  • Mathematica for Teaching and Education: 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: 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.

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

  • Mathematica for University Research: 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.
  • Field-Specific Applications: Learn what areas of Mathematica are useful for specific fields.

How to Access This Software

Mathematica can be installed on personal computers located on campus, personal computers owned by faculty and staff, and personal computers owned by students. Follow the instructions below to download and install Mathematica on these computers.

Campus Computers

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

  1. Create an account (New users only; current users skip to step 2):
    1. Go to user.wolfram.com and click Create Account.
    2. Fill out the form using your USC email address 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 your activation key when prompted.

Faculty and Staff Personal Use

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

Student Personal Use

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

  1. Create an account (New users only; current users skip to step 2):
    1. Go to user.wolfram.com and click Create Account.
    2. Fill out the form using your USC email address 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 your activation key when prompted.

Information on using Mathematica, including how to use it on your UNIX computing account can be found at itservices.usc.edu/mathematica.

Mathematica in the USC Computing Centers

Mathematica is also available on computers located in the following USC Computing Centers:

  • Ahmanson Information Commons in Leavey Library (LVL Lower Level)
  • King Hall (KOH) 206
  • Waite Phillips Hall (WPH) B34

For information on accessing software in these USC Computing Centers, see itservices.usc.edu/spaces/computingcenters.

Remote Access through Cloudapps.usc.edu

This software is also available through ITS’s virtual desktop interface (VDI), cloudapps.usc.edu. For information on how to access applications through cloudapps.usc.edu, visit itservices.usc.edu/vdi.