1. The Central Limit Theorem with Mathematica 6 Welcome to IT’s seminar on Mathematica Sam Gordji, ccsam@olemiss.educcsam@olemiss.edu Weir 107

2. General Information Questions will be answered during the seminar What is Mathematica: Mathematica does mathematical operations –Its competitors are MathWorks, Maple, and others –University decided on getting Mathematica after looking into other similar packages

3. General Information Email contact –Email your questions to mathadm@olemiss.edu Any full time student or faculty may install Mathematica from: https://secure.olemiss.edu/mathemat/index_mat h.jsp https://secure.olemiss.edu/mathemat/index_mat h.jsp Please fill out the performance report and leave your email address so we may contact you for follow up questions

4. General Information This seminar is for beginners and covers The “Central Limiting Theorem” and a Few other functions MathWorld is a site supported by Mathematica and contains solutions to many mathematical problems All the work in Mathematica is performed in a Notebook

5. 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

6. Introduction (cont.) The webpages for these articles and the Demo Notebook called “Math_sem0.nb” may be downloaded http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpag e.php?pagename=mathcamp.inchttp://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpag e.php?pagename=mathcamp.inc Other IT articles on Mathematica may be downloaded from http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/mathematica /fall_sem/

7. Introduction (cont.) Some of Mathematica’s Webpages: http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/BySubject/Mathematica/ApplicationPackages/ http://www.wolfram.com/services/ http://www.wolfram.com/siteinfo/ –The last one contains UM site Information and help users to find various information such as services available to UM users, etc.

8. Introduction (Cont.) Mathlink –Mathlink integrates Mathematica and Java, permits Java to be called from MathematicaMathematica Mathematica’s main function is to perform Mathematical operations This seminar is based on how Mathematica is being used at UM

9. Today We’ll Cover Mathematica’s Startup Palette –Let’s look at First Five Minutes with Mathematica, mostly with the “Slider” –Using Help finding a function The “Central Limiting Theorem”