Free Software Replacement for Maple

[Coleman Kane]

Gurhan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Lori Nagel <jastiv at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone know of a Free-Software replacement for Maple?  My husband is
>> taking a an electrical engineering graduate level statistics  class and says
>> he needs  it to do  some of his  homework.  Having never gotten far enough
>> in the maths myself,  I'm not  really sure what features it needs.  All I
>> know is proprietary license keys are a real pain.
>>
>>     
>
>   Does it have to be maple-compatible? I mean will he need to turn in
> maple code for his assignments? If you are just looking for a
> mathematical software GNU Octave is an excellent one. It's intended to be
> a free software clone of Matlab, and does the job pretty good.
>
> http://www.octave.org
>
> Thanks,
> gurhan
>   
I've used Maxima in the past, and it has proven to be pretty good for me
when I needed it.
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

For a smaller CAS (a glorified solver), I like Mathomatic:
http://mathomatic.orgserve.de/math/

--
Coleman Kane