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

[Gregory W. Smith]

Christopher Smith wrote:
> 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

Here are two additional articles on mathematical software from NASA.
The most recent is from the O'Reilly ONLamp:

  http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/03/30/software-of-space-exploration.html

The second reference is from the Houston AIAA section newsletter:

  http://www.aiaa-houston.org/newsletter/jan06/jan06.pdf

I agree with Chris that Scilab (www.scilab.org) and R (www.r-project.org)
are also worthwhile mathematical packages.  Both projects are active and
I just downloaded the recent releases earlier this week.  The current
version of R was released in December.  The current version of Scilab was
released in February.

If you have Python, you might also want to look into SciPy (www.scipy.org).
You get most of the same numerical routines that are in MatLab/Octave.  The
main difference is that the scripting is in Python.
-- 
Gregory W. Smith (WD9GAY)                            gsmith at well.com
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