On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Eric Richardson wrote: > "Timothy J. Ford > > > > you should try octave, it's very good. > > > How does this compare to Mathematica?
For a GPL symbolic algebra system, you can try Maxima. For a free (as in beer for non-commercial use) closed source option, look at MuPaD (http://www.mupad.de/). For a commercial product, look at Maple or Mathematica itself. Both have native Linux versions. Octave is nearly syntactically identical to MatLab for numerical operations. Many matlab scripts can run as is. -- Syrus -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus C Nemat-Nasser, PhD | Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials UCSD Department of Physics | UCSD Department of Mechanical | and Aerospace Engineering | [Extension: X45119] / \ ^^^^^^ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <---> FAX: (208) 567-3114 {Idaho via efax} -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
