Fwd: Re: [Wylug-discuss] Linux + Mathematics

[ruddell at doctors.org.uk]

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>To: Jonathan Algar <jonathan at algar.org.uk>
>From: Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham at dev.InTechnology.co.uk>
>Date: 21 Jul 2003 16:45:09 +0100
>On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 16:31, Jonathan Algar wrote:
>> Studying mathematics at A level, mathematical computation is very
critical
>> to my studies. I have a license for mathematica
>> (http://www.mathematica.com) for WINDOWS. I am trying to move
>> towards a pure linux environment, so i can scrap my current duel boot.
>
>Mathematica is available on Linux.  I have no idea what the licensing
>implications of a conversion are.
>
>Maple also used to be available on Linux.  [I don't have anything to do
>with this stuff at all any more so just don't know the current state]
>
>Octave http://www.octave.org/ is an alternative - although its trying to
>replace MatLab (I get all these mixed up).  It used to be the case that
>it handled certain specialities very well but was missing some of the
>more general stuff - again I am very out of date on this (around 8
>years).
>
>There are a couple more maths environments around - I just tried
>searching for Mathematic on freshmeat and hit a pile of stuff - try that
>and see if you get anything useful out.
>
>	Nigel.
>
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