Free Software Replacement for Maple

[paul.cour1 at verizon.net]

Statistics Open Source ...

My vote is for " R "
An amazing tool for statistics at:
http://www.r-project.org/

paulc


>From: Coleman Kane <cokane at cokane.org>
>Date: 2008/02/20 Wed PM 12:26:26 CST
>To: Gurhan <gurhan.ozen at gmail.com>
>Cc: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
>Subject: Re: Free Software Replacement for Maple

>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
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