Mathematica 9 for Beginners

Learn Mathematica 9 from scratch with this beginner-friendly course designed for high school and college students without programming experience.

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Brief Summary

This course introduces Mathematica 9 to beginners, perfect for high school and college students. It covers using the software for arithmetic, algebra, and basic graphing without diving deep into programming or advanced mathematics.

Key Points

  • No programming background needed, but some basics in languages like C/C++/Java help.
  • Course focuses on using Mathematica, not on programming or math in general.
  • Students should be comfy with basic arithmetic, algebra, and functions.
  • Knowledge of graphs, set theory, matrices, vectors, and calculus is ideal.
  • Mathematica is great for doing arithmetic, algebra, and graphing.

Learning Outcomes

  • Become familiar with the Mathematica interface and tools.
  • Learn to perform arithmetic and algebra using Mathematica.
  • Master drawing and interpreting basic graphs with Mathematica.
  • Understand the integration of mathematical concepts through software.
  • Build a solid foundation in applying Mathematica to solve equations and inequalities.

About This Course

A course that teaches Mathematica 9 for beginners to the software. It teaches Mathematica for college and high school

This is an example based course aiming to teach Mathematica at an understandable level to students in college. Advanced high school students, or students whose high school teaches Mathematica will also find this course invaluable.

It assumes no understanding of programming languages, although knowledge, even rudimentary, of C/C++/Java is a plus.

This course does NOT teach Mathematica as a programming language.

This course does NOT teach Mathematics in general. Although a textbook on Pure Mathematics will come in handy for reference.

Any high school textbook that teaches college level Pure Mathematics is recommended. College students may use their course textbooks recommended by their Professor.

Students are expected to:

1. Know basic arithmetic and algebra including basic transcendental functions (exponential and trigonometric)

2. Know what a function is, including function composition, inverse and the definition of one-to-one functions

4. How to solve equations and inequalities.

3. Know common graphs of functions

4. Basic knowledge of set theory (preferably including partitioning and powersets)

5. Knowledge of matrices and vectors, preferably also knowledge of vector fields.

6. Rudimentary knowledge of 3D functions and functions on more than one variable

7. A broad knowledge of calculus including the basics of differential equations

8. Rudimentary knowledge of complex numbers

This course is in no way affiliated with Wolfram Research, Inc. The software, the Mathematica trademark and the associated logo belongs to Wolfram Research, Inc.

ScreenFlow, the software and associated trademarks belong to Telestream, Inc.


To contact me please e-mail: 2shakilrafi@gmail.com

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  • To teach you how to do arithmetic using Mathematica

  • To teach you how to handle algebra using Mathematica

  • To teach you how to draw basic graphs using Mathematica

Course Curriculum

2 Lectures

Instructor

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Shakil Rafi

Hi there! I am a Math Major at Troy University in Alabama. I am currently a Junior and I have been using software to do my math for me for quite a while. Partly because its easy and partly because my course requires it. I will be instructing you on Mathematica 9. Have a blast !

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4.9 course rating
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ui-avatar of Olivier Fontaine
Olivier F.
1.0
4 years ago

Very bad.

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ui-avatar of Leighton Cooper
Leighton C.
4.5
6 years ago

So far I have been following along trying the lectures into Mathematica. They all work. I am also trying to convert the Maplesoft class into Mathematica so I will let you know how that goes. I think this course is a good one to take.

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ui-avatar of Žiga Našič
Žiga N.
1.0
7 years ago

no useful insight so far

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ui-avatar of Richard Reddy
Richard R.
4.0
9 years ago

Basic Mathematica operations. Thoughtful presentations.

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ui-avatar of Maurice Villatoro
Maurice V.
0.5
9 years ago

too much bs.

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ui-avatar of Kenji Strazdins
Kenji S.
5.0
9 years ago

Made my Mathematica coding neater and more efficient. And for $19, it is a steal.

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ui-avatar of Dirk Cotton
Dirk C.
4.0
10 years ago

I'm a computer programmer and Mathematica isn't a lot like other programming languages. Before you get to Do-Loops, however, you need to understand how the basic Mathematica capabilities work in interactive mode. This was an excellent intro for me at a fair price. (I find most Mathematica classes grossly overpriced.)

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