Introduction to Mathematica and Generating Quizzes

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Introduction to Mathematica and Generating
Quizzes

• Welcome to ITs seminar on Mathematica
• Sam Gordji, ccsam_at_olemiss.edu
• Weir 107

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General Information

• Your questions will be answered during the
  seminar
• What is Mathematica?
• Mathematica does mathematical operations
• Its competitors are MathWorks, Maple, and a few
  others
• The University decided on getting Mathematica
  after looking into other similar packages

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General Information

• Email contact
• Email your questions to
• mathadm_at_olemiss.edu
• Any full time student or faculty may install
  Mathematica from https//secure.olemiss.edu/mathe
  mat/index_math.jsp
• Please fill out the performance report and leave
  your email address so we may contact you for
  follow up questions

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General Information

• This seminar is for beginners and covers how to
  access information from UM Web as well as from
  Mathematicas Website
• MathWorld is a site supported by Mathematica and
  contains solutions to many mathematical problems
• All the work in Mathematica is performed in a
  Notebook

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Introduction

• Mathematica is a very powerful and user friendly
  package that most students from many disciplines
  may use
• Network Mathematica is a licensing program for
  sites that use multiple copies of Mathematica on
  a single network
• Mathematica is available to students, faculty and
  staff (UM Oxford) at no cost
• IT has several articles on Mathematica. These
  articles are designed to familiarize users with
  different parts of Mathematica

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Introduction (cont.)

• The webpages for these articles and the Demo
  Notebook called Math_sem0.nb may be downloaded
  at
• http//www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpage.php?pagena
  memathcamp.inc
• Other IT articles on Mathematica may be
  downloaded from
• http//www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/mathematica/fall_sem/

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Introduction (cont.)

• Some of Mathematicas Webpages
• http//library.wolfram.com/infocenter/BySubject/M
  athematica/ApplicationPackages/
• http//www.wolfram.com/services/
• http//www.wolfram.com/siteinfo/
• The last one contains UM site information and
  helps users to find various information such as
  services available to UM users, etc.

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Introduction (cont.)

• Mathlink
• Mathlink integrates Mathematica and Java, permits
  Java to be called from Mathematica
• Mathematicas main function is to perform
  mathematical operations
• This seminar is based on how Mathematica is being
  used at UM

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Introduction (cont.)

• Mathematicas Startup Palette
• Lets look at the First Five Minutes with
  Mathematica
• Using Help finding a function
• Palette, basic_math.nb
• Math_sem0.nb

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Demo for Creating Quizzes

• Access the Following Link
• http//library.wolfram.com/webMathematica/Educatio
  n/MakeQuiz.jsp
• Lets create some simple and intermediate quizzes