Re: OT QUERY: Mathematica versus Maple.

From: Torben Mikael Hansen (torben_at_nospam.foo)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 01:28:00 +0900

There are also some other possibilities.

MuPAD can do much of the same things as mathematica and mable. I does
not know as many integrals and the commands may seem a little odd at times.
MuPAD has a free academic license.
http://www.mupad.de

Maxima, is also a symbolic math package. I never made it work though.
It's a open source under GPL. I see that there is a new release so maybe
I'll try again soon.
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

Octave is a MatLAB clone. It is almost perfectly compatible with MatLAB.
The graphics, using GNUPlot is not quite as sophisticated. It has some
symbolic capabilities using GiNaC. All GPL.
http://www.octave.org/
http://octave.sourceforge.net/
http://www.ginac.de/

MatLAB uses Maple for symbolic manipulation, by the way.

My experience with Maple and Mathematica, which is rather outdated
(versions V and 4.1) is that sometimes Maple can solve an integral that
Mathematica cannot, sometimes opposite.

Torben

mirror wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is way OT but this group is so damned smart and wide-ranging.
>
> I'm interested in a math program on steroids and Mathematica and
> Maple fit. Do any of you suggest one over the other and how come?
>
> Many thanks.
>
>
> Paul

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