Linux Math software (was Simple math considered physics...)

[Michael Costolo]

On Nov 22, 2007 7:05 AM, Jim Kuzdrall <gnhlug at intrel.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 November 2007 23:27, Brian Chabot wrote:
>
>    Has anyone tried Maxima for Linux?  I use its predecessor, Macsyma,
> on Win98 and absolutely love it.  No, more honestly, I invested enough
> time working with it to become proficient - and don't want to go
> through that again.
>
>    A link to Maxima is at maxima.sourceforge.net.  It gives some
> history of the public domain version (now GPL).
>
>
There is also Octave (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/), which is an open
source Matlab clone.  It will run most Matlab scripts without modification
(which can be rather handy).  It uses Gnuplot for graphical output.

And my favorite, R (essentially Gnu S), found at http://www.r-project.org/.
It is generally considered a statistics package, but it is jammed full of
usefulness.

-Mike-

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