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Software – Mathematica

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Desktops, Login, WS, CPU and GPU

We only provide two versions of Mathematica on our systems, named latest and previous.

All Mathematica binaries can be found under the standard location of /usr/local/bin, The text mode binary is called math and the GUI binary is called mathematica

  • For what ever the latest mathematica /usr/local/bin/mathematica
  • For what ever the latest math /usr/local/bin/math

If you require a particular version then you can use this as below.

Mathematica 13 – Latest

  • For mathematica 13 GUI use /usr/local/bin/mathematica13
  • For math 13 use /usr/local/bin/math13

Mathamatica 12 – Previous

  • For mathematica 12 GUI use /usr/local/bin/mathematica11
  • For math 12 use /usr/local/bin/math11

Laptops and Other Devices

All staff and students within the University are able to install Mathematica both on their university device and home device(s). Please use your university email address when registering on Wolfram’s website. You may obtain the software via the following links:

  • Visit https://account.wolfram.com/login/oauth2/sign-in
  • Select ‘Organisation’ and you will be directed through the Durham University SSO Login (the same type of Microsoft login as accessing service such as; IT Self-Service Portal, Zoom, and Office) 
  • You will be prompted to link your Organisational Login to your Wolfram ID 
  • This will automatically assign you a License under our new Mathematica Unlimited (SSO) Site License as either Staff or Student depending on your University IT Account 
  • The SSO Site License will not provide a direct Activation Key. You will need to use SSO to sign into the Desktop Software (Version 12.3.1 and newer) and Wolfram Web Services  

University MDS Devices

If you are on MDS, then you must utilise Mathematica via AppsAnywhere..

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