Sage

Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based...

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• Sage supports symbolic maths through Maxima vfrico • Dec 2016 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Sage needs programming language skills, it doesn't support well symbolic math. Guest • Jul 2015 • 2 agrees and 7 disagrees Disagree   Agree

MATLAB

MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and programming language. Maintained by The MathWorks, MATLAB allows easy matrix manipulation, plotting of functions and...

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• Mathematica is mainly a CAS (symbolic maths), but MATLAB is more for numeric analysis Guest • Dec 2016 • 7 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Both are comprehensive mathematics solutions, and have very similar features, as well as even both being commercial. snshepherd • Apr 2017 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree

R (programming language)

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at...

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GNU Octave

Octave is a computer program for performing numerical computations which is mostly compatible with MATLAB. It is part of the GNU...

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• Octave needs programming language skills, it doesn't support well symbolic math. Guest • Jul 2015 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Maxima

Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary...

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• It's free. It is also smaller, so starts up fast. Runs on Android devices as well. Lot's of functionality, including symbolic and numerical operations. Symbolic operations are not as extensive as Mathematica, but adequate for many operations. Numeric operations are considerably slower than Mathematica, and numerically oriented apps such as R, Matlab or Octave. Guest • Aug 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• I'm a theoretical physicist and I can do almost al the math I need with Mxima Guest • Jun 2018 Disagree   Agree
• It does support Symbolic math, but Matlab or Octave not vfrico • Dec 2016 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Jupyter

Open source, interactive data science and scientific computing across over 40 programming languages.

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Julia

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing...

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Parallel Computing Add a feature

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• It's an easy, powerful, really fast language which feels like a mix of Python and Ruby but runs like C. It comes with many mathematical functions, has a good stack of libraries for graphs (including Matplotlib as PyPlot) and can be used with the Jupyter Notebook. Still not at version 1.0, but already a great tool! Guest • Feb 2017 Disagree   Agree

Maple

Maple is a general-purpose commercial computer algebra system. Users can enter mathematics in traditional mathematical notation. Custom user interfaces can also be...

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Spyder

Spyder (previously known as Pydee) is a free open-source Python development environment providing MATLAB-like features in a simple and light-weighted software, available...

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Scilab

Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. Scilab is...

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SymPy

SymPy is a Python library for symbolic computation. The stated goals of the library are to become a full-featured computer algebra system and to keep a simple code base...

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wxMaxima

wxMaxima is a document based interface for the computer algebra system Maxima. wxMaxima uses wxWidgets and runs natively on Windows, X11 and Mac OS X. wxMaxima provides...

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Xcos

Xcos is a graphical editor to design hybrid dynamical systems models. Models can be designed, loaded, saved, compiled and simulated. Features Palettes Browser ...

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Soulver

Soulver helps you do quick calculations and work things out. Use Soulver to play around with numbers, do "back of the envelope" calculations, and solve...

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Freemat

FreeMat is an environment for rapid engineering and scientific processing. It is similar to commercial systems such as MATLAB from Mathworks and IDL from Research...

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• Discontinued The project is no longer updated. Last version, 4.2, released in June 2013, can be still downloaded from SourceForge

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• Grapher

  With Grapher, you can graph equations and data sets and visualize the results on your Mac in real time. Grapher displays algebraic relations, both implicit and explicit, in 2D and 3D.

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