Mathematica Lessons

Important: The files below are Mathematica 5.0 notebooks. Clicking on any of these files will open a text file that can be read by Mathematica 5.0. However, to get a genuine Mathematica file, you need to download the file to your machine:

• On a Mac (OSX): Move cursor over link, hold both the crtl button and the mouse button down (which opens a menu), then choose "Download linked file as..." or "Save Link As"
• On a PC: click the right mouse button (which opens a menu), then choose "Save Link Target As..."

Open the saved file from within Mathematica or with the new MathPlayer. (MathPlayer allows you to see live animations etc). If you just click on the file to open it, you might get a message indicating that the file has been edited outside of Mathematica. You can safely ignore this message, just save the file when you close it.

Note that all output has been deleted to make the files small for downloading. If you want to evaluate the whole notebook at once, use Kernel -> Evaluation -> Evaluate Notebook in Mathematica 5.2. In version 6.0, you need to first select all cells, then use Evaluation -> Evaluate Cells or simply Shift+Enter.