From: dd435157@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Dan Doner) Subject: Re: Symbolic algebra/intergation Date: Sat, 08 May 1993 22:17:34 GMT
In article <C6nnuu.85D@sci.kun.nl>, ahml@sci.kun.nl (A.H.M. Levelt) writes:
|> In <1993Apr22.181902.103506@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON) writes:
|>
|> >In article <1993Apr20.202137.1228@nynexst.com>, baruch@nynexst.com (Robert Baruch) writes:
|> >>In article 9482@blue.cis.pitt.edu, bard@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Bard Ermentrout)
|> >>cries out, saying:
|> >>>
|> >>>Does anyone know of a public domain symbolic algebra package
|> >>>available for Linux (source would be desirable) I have
|> >>>looked at jacal and scm but these are much lower level
|> >>>than I had in mind ( I dont want to become a LISP
|> >>>programmer.) There are a number of packages for PCs that
|> >>>are commercial ventures so that the source cant be obrtained.
|> >>
|> >I use pari-gp (1.37.3). Compiles easily.
|>
|> >It's better at algebra than integration. In fact, it treats all transcendental
|> >functions as power series. This is OK numerically, but not for calculus
|> >homework.
|>
|> >maybe Maple will offer a linux version - maybe a linux Student version - or
|> >maybe let us borrow the code...
|>
|> >--
|> >Sincerely,
|>
|> >David L. Johnson ID: dlj0@lehigh.edu
|> >Christmas-Saucon Hall #14, rm 241 dlj0@chern.math.lehigh.edu
|> >Department of Mathematics
|>
|> >Lehigh University Telephone: 215-758-3759 (office)
|>
|> REDUCE 3.1 is available under LINUX (and MS-DOS). It is not free software.
|> Ask: melenk@sc.zib-berlin.de
Look into MAXIMA. I believe maxima requires clisp to be installed in order to run.
Maxima is great at algebra, integration, differentiation, etc. It will do most matrix stuff
reasonably well, and does some signal processing as well (fft, etc). It is free.