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

[Gregory W. Smith]

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> 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
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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.
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Gregory W. Smith (WD9GAY)                            gsmith at well.com
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