What is the alternative for Matlab in linux

[emigrant]

hi all
may i know what is the CLOSEST alternative for matlab in linux?

thank you all

[Treeh]

Mathematica?

http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html

It's incredibly expensive to buy a license, unless you're a student--then you can get it for under $100.

[emigrant]

oh i forgot to tell, im looking for free ones.

[Treeh]

A quick Google turned up "Sage":

http://www.sagemath.org/index.html

[emigrant]

thanks, anybody used Sage?

[JDahl]

There are several alternatives:

* Octave is very similar to Matlab. For everyday use
(without various toolboxes) Octave can be used as a
transparent replacement.

* SAGE is also great, but perhaps closer to Maple/Mathematica
in functionality than Matlab.

* Scilab has many features from Matlab/Mathematica.

* R is somewhat similar to Matlab, and is extremely
powerful for statistical computations.

* Python with Scipy extends the popular Python programming
language with scientific capabilities and toolboxes. It
has excellent plotting capabilities using the Matplotlib
package.

If you like to program and has a use for the large number
of extension libraries available in Python, I would definitely
choose Python/Scipy/etc. If you need a simple monolithic package
with linear algebra capabilities and syntax identical to
Matlab then use Octave.

[g.a.]

try Scilab:

www.scilab.org

it is already in the repository of the 9.04 ubuntu release.

it has also a table of conversion from matlab to scilab and some emulated functions with the same matlab syntax.

best,
g.

[XCan]

There are several alternatives:

* Octave is very similar to Matlab. For everyday use
(without various toolboxes) Octave can be used as a
transparent replacement.

* SAGE is also great, but perhaps closer to Maple/Mathematica
in functionality than Matlab.

* Scilab has many features from Matlab/Mathematica.

* R is somewhat similar to Matlab, and is extremely
powerful for statistical computations.

* Python with Scipy extends the popular Python programming
language with scientific capabilities and toolboxes. It
has excellent plotting capabilities using the Matplotlib
package.

If you like to program and has a use for the large number
of extension libraries available in Python, I would definitely
choose Python/Scipy/etc. If you need a simple monolithic package
with linear algebra capabilities and syntax identical to
Matlab then use Octave.

This summarizes the alternatives nicely, and I completely agree with the poster.

[1/0]

Use Pylab with Scilab! It existed before matlab, has more functions, is free and the code is similar (e.g. ^2 is written **2 instead).

If you want a GUI for it, install Scite. Write the code, press F5, and the calculations are shown on the right side of the window.

[aislam]

maxima is very good in symbolic mathematics
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

scilab, octave are good for numerical mathematics (similar to matlab)