When I needed symbolic maths, I used
https://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/ which is derived from the
original Macsyma.
It comes in a quite nice environment that does decent formatting (LaTeX
style) of the output. I would recommend it (esp. if you want to stick with
free/open source software).

Op do 5 nov. 2020 om 17:29 schreef Hauke Rehr <[email protected]>:

> maybe that’s not a question for this forum but
> since you already mentioned a couple of systems:
>
> How do GAP and Sage compare in this regard?
> I’d have expected them to be competitive in
> this field as well.
>
> Am 05.11.20 um 17:24 schrieb Henry Rich:
> > There are real experts about this on this list, and I am not among them;
> > but when I was teaching Calc 3/Linear Algebra I looked around for
> > symbolic-math packages & found 3 to be highly regarded: Mathematica,
> > Maple, and MACSYMA.  Each has its adherents, but MACSYMA is free, so the
> > class used that.  It sufficed for our simple manipulations.
> >
> > Henry Rich
> >
> > On 11/5/2020 10:20 AM, David Lambert wrote:
> >> I recommend mathematica as a good choice for symbolic algebra, and keep
> a
> >> Raspberry Pi which came with mathematica in the software
> >> distribution.  For
> >> simple problems wolframalpha.com suffices.
> >> At wolframalpha.com try
> >> Solve[(x^2+Log[y])^(1)==c,x]
> >> and
> >> Solve[(x^2+Log[y])^(1)==c,y]
> >>
> >> Mathematica can express the output in many forms
> >>
> >> FortranForm[expression]
> >> CForm[expression]
> >> TeXForm
> >>
> >> alas, no JForm
> >>
> >>
> >>> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 11:27:36 +1100
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