Last Update: June 7, 1999
Many of our courses at the upper division and graduate level require or would be considerably enhanced if the students had some knowledge of a state of the art language like Mathematica for doing mathematics or statistics on a computer . Time constraints prohibit or severely limit formal classroom instruction in this language. The purpose of this website is to give a short instruction manual for independent study to bring the student or faculty member rapidly to the level where they can begin experimenting with this powerful, but highly sophisticated tool on the Department of Mathematical Sciences Network of Sun Workstations in Bell Hall 215, the Statistical Lab Network, thru PC terminals connected to the Sun Network, or on a Macintosh terminal in Bell Hall 130. The emphasis in our writeup is in helping the student or faculty researcher get started with Mathematica programming. Many of our examples will be of interest to new users who may have access to Mathematica on some other platform. Besides examples illustrating commonly used graphical commands, mathematical operators and functions, matrix computations, integration, and differential tools, the site would emphasize tricks, traps and hard to find commands which plague the new user. Complex programs, graduate research projects, research articles, and thesis will generally require a sophisticated ASCII editor like Emacs . We include some discussion on Unix commands and links to editing in Epoch/Emacs where we interface an editing system with Mathematica in designing algorithms and incorporating Mathematica output in writing research papers, reports, theses and class projects. Short class homeworks, projects, can be done using the editing features of the Notebooks option. The use of the notebooks feature of Mathematica for composition of programs and reports is primarily menu driven and will not be emphasized here. Please send any comments/corrections to Professor Eugene F. Schuster at gene@math.utep.edu
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