What can Mathematica do (part one)?

Some Demonstrations

• Demo 1: Integrals, sums and products.
• Demo 2: Numerics
• Demo 3: PDEs
• Demo 4: Spirographs

What can Mathematica do (part two)?

Systematically:

Introduction

• Intro: simple numerics, simple symbolics, simple plots!
  
  
• Note:
  • text-based interface vs GUI (with palette);
  • save work in a Mathematica Notebook (and open later);
  • "Shift-Return" or "Enter" (not simple "Return").
  
  
  
  
• Typesetting and Palettes
  
  
• Keystrokes

Variables and Functions

• Substitution, Functions and Defining Variables

Building up Computations

• simple example

Finite Maths (Algebra)

• Lists and Tables, Vectors, Matrices

Graphics; Immediate Help

• basic (with ?Function).

Solving Algebraic Equations

• solving equations

Calculus

• Limits, Differentiation and Integration, Series