Mathematica / Maple

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Are any open source alternatives to mathematica or maple or for that matter matlab??

I have octave.... but i wanted something which provides a GUI interface like maple or mathematica

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Well, Matlab and Mathematica are expensive for a reason... There are no great alternatives. Octave and sage are some but there's also Scilab (http://www.scilab.org/) and Maxima (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/).

You could check them out but remember, they are free...

[srhlefty]

Just thought I'd point out that Matlab comes with native linux packages, albeit binary.

[Matthew Bartram]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=598442

[artesian_spring]

If you try Maxima (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/), I recommend using the frontend GUI wxMaxima (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/) with it. You'll need to install both of them separately (they're both in Synaptic package manager).

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thnx.... tht makes it look much more soothing for the eyse