Hi On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 04:17:26PM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > I beg to disagree. As far as I know: number theorists use g-pari/kant, > group theorists use gap and commutative algebra/algebraic geometry > people use macaulay/singularity. While none of these are packaged for > Debian most of them do not have a license as restrictive as Mathematica. > I would also add that programs written in them tend to run significantly > faster than corresponding mathematica ones. >
Pari, gap, and singular are packaged, though singular is not in the debian archives, obtain it from their own site. There are many more not on the list above... > However, these are packages written by mathematicians for > mathematicians. What you want is perhaps a package written for those who > do not want to worry about the mathematical details :) Have a look at the singular documentation and interface, it is real nice. As soon as surf matures there will be added graph capabilities. > > 1. Is there no GNU CAS that even comes close to Mathematica? > In the sense that you mean perhaps not. There is similarly no user > environment in GNU that comes even close to Mac OS X --- perhaps the > aims are different. (See Linus' recent rant to the effect that if you > make an environment which assumes that people using it are stupid > then only stupid people will use it). Is there no mathematica licence that comes even close to GPL? cheers, Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
