Overview
Mathematica consists of 20 years of creating the most powerful specialized mathematical software engine in the world.
Its versatility makes it useful not only for doing basic academic calculations but also completing complicated calculations, like programming or numerical data presentations.
Mathematica integrates software engines doing numerical and symbolic computation, as well as graph analysis software, programming language, document formats and the possibility of publishing your work results.
Thanks to multiplicity of its functions it’s a priceless tool for mathematicians, physicists, biologists, chemists, financial analysts, sociologists and many more professions that deal with data.
Participants will gain skills to
- perform calculations efficiently
- understanding program commands
- creating text documents
- building charts and graphs
- data presentations
Requirements
Basic knowledge of mathematical analysis and high school level mathematical competence.
Course Outline
Day One
Basics of working in Mathematica
- notepad and its structure
- cells
- data
- documents
Creating text documents
- templates
- text cells
- saving documents
Mathematical expressions and operations
- numerical and symbolic computation
- variables and operators
- functions
- tables and matrices
- strings
- lists
- tables
- vectors
Basics of building charts and graphs
- creating and editing charts
- creating and editing graphs
Wolfram Alpha
Day Two
Issues in data presentation
Graphic design basics
- Plot/Plot3D
- GraphicsGrid
- ParametricPlot/ParametricPlot3D
- LogPlot
- ContourPlot
- DensityPlot
- ListPlot/ListPlot3D
- ListPointPlot3D
- Histogram/Histogram3D
- BarChart
- PieChart/PieChart3D
- PolyhedronData
- RegionPlot/RegionPlot3D
Graphis design guide
- directives
- default values modifications
Predefined graphic objects
1. 2D Objects
- arrow
- Bezier curve
- circle
- filled curve
- polyline
- polygon
- text
2. 3D Objects
- cone
- cuboid
- cylinder
- sphere
Creating a slide show
Animation
- Animate function
- Manipulate function