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chever
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| Orwell wrote: | | chever wrote: | It would help greatly if we knew what fields of math you need to work in, what methods you need to use, etc.
For example MATLAB/Octave doesn't handle symbols quite as well as a bona fide CAS like Maxima; they're mostly for a lot of number crunching. On the other hand, many CAS lack some of these tools. |
That's true. Right now I'm working on some linear algebra, so ability to handle matrices would be a nice feature. In a semester or two I'll probably have some fun differential equations to mess with. I was partially wondering what exactly the differences were between these programs, whether any of them can do things the others can't. Since I don't have a very specific area of math that I'm deeply interested in, I suppose that a program that was more versatile than the others would be best. |
I would recommend Maxima unless you have to do partial diff eqs or some shit. It's an insanely good CAS and even though I know Lisp, I've never had to mess with the internals, which is something I worried about when I first got it.
Here are the manual sections on lin alg respective diff eqs; have fun
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/maxima_25.html#SEC81
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/maxima_22.html#SEC71
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Gambit
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Why not MathCAD? It's the most user friendly and does everything you'll want to do. Probably.
I love the tutorials in Maple. And Maple's help/guide is excellent.
Mathematica is good, but expensive.
Matlab? Are you kidding me? Never. Although, having said that I've used Matlab more than all the others combined for linear algebra and control engineering.
as it's between Mathematica & Maple I would go for Maple, because there's really not much between them, but Maple has great tutorials. Although last time I used mathematica was over a year ago and things may have changed significantly since then. |
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dark_mage
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Ah MatLab how I remember that one well especially for electrical engineering (signal processing, optical sensing + imaging). Matrices are what it is designed to do so if linear algebra is what you are pursuing then that can help. However, it is up to you which tool you wish to use. I have used Mathematica & it didn't sit well with me but that being said Octave or Maxima could also work for you however, I haven't personally used those tools.
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