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?
Similar on the command syntax, or even the GUI