Here are some useful links about Mathematica.
- Wolfram Research, the publisher of Mathematica.
- Mathematica for Students—buy your optional Mathematica license here.
- Mathematica Learning Center —screencasts, how-tos, tutorials, demonstrations. Especially recommended are the screencast videos:
- Hands-on Start to Mathematica—Part 1
- Hands-on Start to Mathematica—Part 2, at least the segment 5:00–10:00 min
- An Overview of the Mathematica Help System
- Wolfram Mathematica Documentation Center—on-line version of the documentation provided with Mathematica itself.
- Student support forum—a place to ask other student users your Mathematica questions (but please don’t ask others to do your homework!).
- Animated Mathematica functions—watch animations of how
Map,Apply, and other functions work, especially with lists. (If the link given doesn’t work, try instead this older link.) - Wolfram Demonstrations Project—download demonstrations about complex analysis (and lots of other things!)