Open Source Symbolic Math Packages?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday January 10, 2004 @03:41PM from the here-we-go-again dept.

3Suns asks: "There are many proprietary symbolic mathematics suites available, including Mathcad, Mathematica, and Maple. Strangely, I can't find a single free software project with similar functionality. These programs are as ubiquitous in universities and engineering companies as they are expensive. Given the deep roots of open-source in higher education, what can explain the lack of free/open-source mathematics software?" We last addressed this question three years ago, but a lot can change in that time. Has it?

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Re:Google? by mschaef · 2004-01-10 16:26 · Score: 5, Informative

Yes, maxima...

http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

or giac...
http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/englis h.html

(giac, interestingly enough, runs on PDA's for a mobile solution...)

If you haven't found open source CAS, you haven't really looked...
Depends exactly what you're doing.. by kongtomorrow · 2004-01-10 17:53 · Score: 5, Informative

For commutative algebra, for example, there's Macaulay2.