MATEM

Course: Mathematical Software in Natural Science

Department/Abbreviation: KEF/MATEM

Year: 2021

Guarantee: 'Mgr. Jan Říha, Ph.D.'

Annotation: Cílem předmětu je seznámení se softwarem Mathematica, základy jeho obsluhy a možného využití v přírodních vědách - ve fyzice, chemii, biologii a geografii. Bude též provedeno základní srovnání s možnostmi ostatního matematického freeware.

Course review:
Students will learn the basic elements of the program Mathematica and its use in these areas: 1. Overview - Calculation - Import, visualization and data processing - Screening and filtering data - Construction and analyzation of statistical data - Dynamical data manipulation. 2. Introduction to Mathematica - What is Mathematica? - Getting started - Basic operations - Notebooks - Exercises 3. Programming I - Assignments and definitions - Procedural programming - Functional programming - Programming with rules - Comparing programming styles - Application for data processing - Exercises 4. Visualization and graphics - Function visualization - Data visualization - Graphics options - Displaying graphics - Dynamic and interactive graphics - Examples - Exercises 5. Symbolic computation - Polynomials - Solving equations - Calculus - Simplifications - Exercises 6. Numerical computation - Functions for numerical computation - Working with numbers - Large arrays - Exercises 7. Programming II - Basic principles - Functional programming - Options and messages - Efficiency - Exercises 8. Working with data - Importing and exporting - Data collections - Examples - Exercises 9. Applications in natural sciences