Mathematical software

[Zdravko]

Hi! I search for a nice and comprehensive Mathematical software for Feisty. What can you recommend me?
I need matrices, integrals, functions plotting.

[akniss]

Scilab
http://www.scilab.org/
sudo aptitude install scilab
Some users have had issues with text showing up only in Hindi when installing scilab from the Ubuntu repos. This is probably fixed by now, but if not, there is a binary version available on the scilab website. Just unpack it and read the README_Unix file.

Maxima
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
sudo aptitude install maxima

Octave
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
sudo aptitude install octave

[witten]

Hi,

If you want a really good software for all symbolic, numeric and plotting needs you have, try Mathematica...it's not free but damn good. I use it all the times.

Steeve
E. Witten - Master of superstring theory

[rufius]

I would also mention R if you're handling matrices.
apt-get install r-base

[tyreth]

As a non-free solution, what do you guys think of Matlab?

[Zdravko]

We think of it as a non-free solution! :(

[NiRaDo]

Scilab
Maxima
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
sudo aptitude install maxima


I give advice to install wxmaxima who is based to maxima, but it can be viewed thanks to gtk : it has a GUI. So it's easier than maxima to insert matrices, integrals or functions plotting.

Even if I like Terminal, I think it's more ergonomic than a black screen to do this wear.

[in_flu_ence]

Another non-free product is mupad. It looks very much like mathematica and seem to run pretty well in ubuntu. I tried the trial version.

[UltraMathMan]

I'd second wxmaxima, I'm very happy with it - it has a similar command syntax to Maple (another non-free option).

-Hope this helps :)

[orodoni_le]

Is there anything similar to Mathcad? :confused:
Similar on the command syntax, or even the GUI

[zgornel]

By far the most advanced of ALL is Matlab. It is not free :(

[Zdravko]

I am searching only for FREE solutions.

[outer_space]

I havnt tried wxmaxima but I tried scilab and its comparable to matlab. I took a matlab image processing course and had no problem using scilab instead of matlab.

What makes wxmaxima better than scilab?

[Uodnelome]

I would also mention R if you're handling matrices.
apt-get install r-base

Interesting -- my introductory statistics program only used R for its graph plotting, and standard deviation functions. It's also pretty robust there, with all sorts of commands to calculate percentages based on the standard deviation given a normal distribution -- the trick is learning all of the commands first.

It's kind of daunting, but is pretty powerful once you know how to use it.

http://www.r-project.org/
...should anyone want to read the project's website.

[engla]

I havnt tried wxmaxima but I tried scilab and its comparable to matlab. I took a matlab image processing course and had no problem using scilab instead of matlab.

What makes wxmaxima better than scilab?

You shouldn't say better. They are very different in many ways. Scilab is probably tons better for say, image processing. Maxima is mostly about algebraic manipulations (even if it can do numeric operations as well with high precision). The allegory is that scilab is like matlab, and maxima is like maple.

[euler_fan]

Interesting -- my introductory statistics program only used R for its graph plotting, and standard deviation functions. It's also pretty robust there, with all sorts of commands to calculate percentages based on the standard deviation given a normal distribution -- the trick is learning all of the commands first.

It's kind of daunting, but is pretty powerful once you know how to use it.

http://www.r-project.org/
...should anyone want to read the project's website.

I taught myself enough R to get some stuff done, and yeah, it does take a fair bit of time to get rolling but I highly recommend it. It seems to work really well and from what I have read many of the numerical methods actually use FORTRAN routines on the backside, at least for most of the stuff in the core and the more serious packages.

The introduction to R on the project's web page is quite good.