Mathematica for Education


Mathematica was free with every NeXT computer purchased in higher education. The NeXTstep interface, workstation power, multitasking, and virtual memory made NeXT the ultimate Mathematica platform.

Read the followiung position papers from NeXT:

Mathematica brings new understanding to teaching and research

NeXTstep-The Ideal Platform for Mathematica

How do NeXT computers compare to other Mathematica computers? See this:

MathematicaChart

At the Georgia Institute of Technology, instructors developed Mathematica packages and instructional Notebooks for signal processing. The packages implement Laplace, Fourier, z, discrete Fourier, and discrete-time Fourier transforms.

MathematicaSignalAnalyzer

For more information, contact:
Brian L. Evans
Graduate Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering
evans@eedsp.gatech.edu, (404) 894-2910



At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Mathematica's ability to handle complex calculations and help students visualize the results has let Professor Rial teach geomathematics to undergraduate students.

MathematicaDispersionAdvection

The graphs above show analytic solutions to the dispersion-advection equation that simulates the dispersion and transport of pollutants through an aquifer.

Mathematica helps researchers, instructors, and students visualize complex mathematical relations. Its powerful and flexible graphics capabilities make Mathematica an invaluable tool not only for the mathematical sciences but the natural and physical sciences as well.

Here is a description of the Geomathematics course
Mathematica-HeatConduction
for more information contact:
Jose A. Rial
Associate Professor of Geophysics
jar@antipode.geosci.unc.edu, (919) 966-4553


Newton's Cooling Law Numerical ODE Orthogonal Trajectories Series Solutions Resonance
Mathematica-Nwetons Cooling Law
At the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, instructors used Mathematica to teach advanced mathematics with real-world examples. In the Matehematica Notebook above, students use Newton's law of cooling to solve a murder mystery.

Using Mathematica, instructors could teach advanced concepts with engaging real-world examples rather than trivial exercises. Lecture notes and lessons that combine text, graphics, sounds, animations, and Mathematica code were organized in structured documents called Notebooks.

If you had Mathematica and want to solve a murder mystery, read some notebooks

For more information, contact:
Steven Dunbar
Professor of Electrical Engineering
srd@mathcml.unl.edu, (402) 472-7236