Note that if you have a sufficiently new version of MATLAB (since 2008b I think) with Symbolic Toolbox, then you also get MuPAD (which MathWorks acquired) bundled. It has a "notebook" interface similar to that of Maple or Mathematica. John
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:29:41 +1000 > Subject: OT - Mathematical computing > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Does anyone do anything of this type? > > I'm currently playing with MATLAB, and it's pretty fun. There are some > things that require a bit of getting used to, but it seems like it's > the most used and programmable. We've got Maple at Uni as well, and I > certainly prefer that for entering and manipulating equations. I > haven't done much with Mathematica, and those are the only programs > I'm familiar with. I'm under the impression that a component of the > scientific community uses Python; but I suspect that's only because > it's more accessible to them than other programming languages (and > probably due to some existing math libraries which make things > easier). > > Anyone have any thoughts on the matter? I believe MATLAB has some sort > of interaction with Amazon EC2 for running distributed items, which > seems very cool, but I'm yet to do anything anywhere near as > interesting as requiring that. > > Interested to hear if anyone has done any work/investigation in this area. > > -- > silky > > Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy > of being this signature.
