Re: What's the best math software if price is not a factor?

I suggest you try the following free software:

MuPAD (http://www.mupad.de)

which is a symbolic algebra system, similar to Maple, and

Scilab (http://www.scilab.org)

which is computational matrix-oriented software similar to Matlab.

Then you can decide if a symbolic or a computational package will best
suit your needs. Of course, if price is no object, you could get both
Maple and Matlab. The virtue of this is that each of Maple and Matlab
will allow you to use the other: the "Symbolic" toolbox of Matlab is a
Matlab front-end to the Maple kernel, and you can also use Matlab from
within Maple.

Both are very mature products.

-Alasdair

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