This tutorial is accredited appropriately. The right to distribute this tutorial and refer to this tutorial as long as You, as the user, are free to use the scripts for your needs to learn the Mathematica program, and have While Mathematica output is in normal font.įinally, you can copy and paste all commands into your Mathematica notebook, change the parameters, and run them because the tutorial is under the terms of the GNU General Public License Why did you choose Mathematica There are other tools such as MATLAB, Python or Julia that can do numerical simulation problems too And perhaps better than Mathematica For some problems. The Mathematica commands in this tutorial are all written in bold black font, It is primarily for students who have very little experience or have never used Mathematica and programming before and would like to learn more of the basics for this computer algebra system.Īs a friendly reminder, don't forget to clear variables in use and/or the kernel. There are several relevant tutorials in the documentation, including on use of the text-based interface and a listing of command-line options and environment variables.This tutorial was made solely for the purpose of education and it was designed for students taking Applied Math 0330. This documentation page collects all the relevant commands together. Using the command prompt, navigate to the directory in Windows that stores the Mathematica kernel executable, as described in this page in the Mathematica documentation. This will generally involve (a) right-clicking on the My Computer icon from the desktop and choosing Properties, then (b) clicking on a tab or button with the word Advanced in its label (it’s the Advanced System Settings link in Vista and later), and then (c) choosing the Environment Variables option. Enter the full pathname as part of the commandĪdd MathKernel as a PATH variable using the instructions appropriate to your version of Windows.

If the MathKernel command is not in your PATH variable, you can try one of several things: As indicated in the documentation, one can access the Mathematica kernel from the command prompt using the command math in Unix/Linux and MathKernel from Mac OS X/ Windows.