[Lula] Re: Does anybody know if there's free linux software which can do algebra like Mathematica or mathlab

[Christopher Smith]

Gregory W. Smith wrote:

>>Message: 1
>>Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:37:52 -0700 (PDT)
>>From: Gerardo Soto-Campos <c_soto_campos at yahoo.com>
>>Subject: [Lula] Does anybody know if there's free linux software which
>>	can	do algebra like Mathematica or mathlab
>>To: Lula at lula.org
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>>Hello linux group:
>>
>>Ocassionaly I need to triple-check the consistency of the things that
>>I program in smalltalk. Having software which does mathematics, a la
>>mathematica or maple, would be very helpful to me. Does anyone know
>>of free linux software to do math?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Gerardo Soto-Campos
>>
>>Gerardo Soto-Campos
>>Culver City, CA 
>>    
>>
>
>Two packages come to mind.  If you are familiar with MatLab, then
>Octave is a free clone that can run a number of MatLab scripts to
>solve linear equations, do least squares, evaluate integrals, and
>solve ordinary and partial differential equations.  You can check
>out www.octave.org for more information.
>
>The Maxima package (maxima.sourceforge.net) is a descendent of the
>DOE Macsyma symbolic algebra package.
>
>You might want to check on sourceforge for other packages.
>  
>
Good suggestions. I'd also through in Scilib, and for statistical stuff
I'd look at R

IBM has a good article on some of this:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-oslab/?loc=dwmain

--Chris
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