[SOLVED] free mathematics for linux instead mathematica

[forum4programs]

Hi,

Can somebody point me a free-program that is as good as mathematica (name it X) for ubuntu. Hopefully, X functions also work on mathematica. Similar to "octave and matlab"-case.

[thk]

Take a look at sage http://www.sagemath.org/

[nebu]

try out maxima

[khelben1979]

You could check out this page (http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=98) at sourceforge.net. Maybe you'll find something of interest there?

[linuxguymarshall]

GraphCalc. I use it on both Windows and Linux very often.

[forum4programs]

khelben1979
Re: free mathematics for linux instead mathematica
You could check out this page at sourceforge.net. Maybe you'll find something of interest there?

Thank you that is extensive link. I installed maxima and sagemath, but currently I can run maxima and unable to use sagemath. Although I followed this guide http://www.sagemath.org/doc/inst/node5.html and this guide http://www.sagemath.org/download-source.html.

Compiling source code of sagemath took soooooooo.... long, but I won't give up to make it works yet.

Thanks for helping me out.

[euler_fan]

Hi,

Can somebody point me a free-program that is as good as mathematica (name it X) for ubuntu. Hopefully, X functions also work on mathematica. Similar to "octave and matlab"-case.

The big question here is what do you plan on doing with it. Mathematica's big forte is symbolic manipulation . . . matlab and octave are really meant for number crunching.

[benjamincuft]

I know next to nothing about mathematics (though I've recently purchased Ian Stewart's Concepts in modern mathematics to try to remedy that), but for what it's worth:

Genius Mathematics Tool (http://www.jirka.org/genius.html) is another option. It's available in the repositories.

B.C.

[Coder543]

try this: Install Qalculate (apt:qalculate-kde)

Qalculate is a great program with almost everything imaginable: graphing, calculus, algebra, unit conversions, solving for variables, etc. And totally free. (Click the link above to install... its in the repos)