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Mathematica

Eligibility:

- Faculty
- Staff
- Students

The site license covers the Seattle, Bothell and Tacoma campuses.  Mathematica passwords and activation keys will only be distributed to "u.washington.edu" "uw.edu" or "uwb.edu" email addresses.

UW Owned Computers:
Under this license currently registered UW students, faculty and staff are eligible to use Mathematica on University-owned equipment.  It is expected that all UW owned computers that normally stay on campus will utilize the Physics run License Server:   MathLM.phys.washington.edu . During activation you can enter the DNS name of our server "MathLM.phys.washington.edu" and this will activate the software.   

NOTE:  This should only be done for machines that will stay on campus.  If there are technical reasons why you can not utilize the campus license server please contact mathematica@uw.edu 

Student Personal Computers:
Currently enrolled students at the Seattle, Bothell, or Tacoma campus may install Mathematica on their personally-owned computer for free.

Faculty, Staff Home use:
Through this license UW faculty and staff only are eligible to request a free Mathematica license for their personally-owned computer under the Home-use program. 

Software Overview:

Wolfram Mathematica is a software system with built-in libraries for several areas of technical computing that allows machine learning, statistics, symbolic computation, data manipulation, network analysis, time series analysis, NLP, optimization, plotting functions and various types of data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other programming languages. It was conceived by Stephen Wolfram, and is developed by Wolfram Research of Champaign, Illinois.The Wolfram Language is the programming language used in Mathematica. Mathematica 1.0 was released on June 23, 1988 in Champaign, Illinois and Santa Clara, California. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Mathematica

This product is available for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux/Unix.

The UW license manager supports the newest version (14.1) of Mathematica. Older versions of Mathematica can also use the license manager, versions 13.0 and newer are supported. 

What's New in Mathematica 14.0 and 14.1.

See the vendor's web site for additional information.

Mathematica can be installed on:

    • Campus machines

      1. Use your UW email address ("u.washington.edu" "uw.edu" or "uwb.edu").
      2. Go to user.wolfram.com and "Login" or "Create Account" with your UW Email Address
      3. Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID
      4. Fill out this form to request an Activation Key [Choose the product: Mathematica for Sites(Single Machine)]
      5. Click on the Product you want to Download 
      6. Click "Get Downloads"
      7. Select the Version and OS and download the software.
      8. After downloading Install the software
      9. When asked to Activate via License Server type "MathLM.phys.washington.edu"
      10. If NOT asked to enter server name, choose "Other Ways to actiavte" and choose "Connect to Network License Server"
      1. Silent Install Instructions

    • Faculty and staff personally owned machines

      • You must use your UW email address ("u.washington.edu" "uw.edu" or "uwb.edu").
      • Mac users - Some users experience problems with the form below when using the Safari browser. If you encounter an issue try a different browser.
      • Fill out this form to request a home-use license from Wolfram.
      • Wolfram has to manually verify your information and this can take a couple of business days.  

    • Student personally owned machines

      1. Create an account (New users only):
        1. Go to user.wolfram.com and click "Create Account"
        2. Fill out form using your UW email address ("u.washington.edu", "uw.edu", or "uwb.edu") as your Wolfram ID.
        3. Check your email and click the link to validate your Wolfram ID
      2. Request the download and key:
        1. Mac users - Some users experience problems with the form below when using the Safari browser. If you encounter an issue try a different browser.
        2. Fill out this form to request an Activation Key
        3. Click the "Product Summary page" link to access your license
        4. Click "Get Downloads" and select "Download" next to your platform
        5. Run the installer on your machine, and enter Activation Key at prompt

Are you interested in installing Mathematica elsewhere? Please let Mathematica Support or Paul Fish at Wolfram Research know.

Additional software and training:

Training and Tutorials 
Visit Wolfram U and Wolfram Library Archive for tutorials.

Mathematica Online
Mathematica Online brings the world's ultimate computation system to the modern cloud environment. Use the power of Mathematica interactive notebooks to work directly in your web browser—with no installation or configuration required—and seamlessly share documents and resources in the cloud. NOTE:  Use your UW email address ("u.washington.edu" "uw.edu" or "uwb.edu").

Mathematica Online Request Form

Technical Support:

For technical support, use the Wolfram contact form or take a look at the FAQ page. 

If you did NOT receive (or lost) your RENEWAL Email, you can call Customer Support:  1-800-WOLFRAM  (Mon-Fri 8am - 5pm US Central Time )

Sales Rep -  Paul Fish at Wolfram

Local Mathematica support - Email Support - Mon-Fri (8am - 5pm) 

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