[SOLVED] free mathematics for linux instead mathematica

Hi,

Can somebody point me a free-program that is as good as mathematica (name it X) for ubuntu. Hopefully, X functions also work on mathematica. Similar to "octave and matlab"-case.

Take a look at sage http://www.sagemath.org/

try out maxima

You could check out this page at sourceforge.net. Maybe you'll find something of interest there?

GraphCalc. I use it on both Windows and Linux very often.

khelben1979

Re: free mathematics for linux instead mathematica You could check out this page at sourceforge.net. Maybe you'll find something of interest there?

Thank you that is extensive link. I installed maxima and sagemath, but currently I can run maxima and unable to use sagemath. Although I followed this guide [HTML]http://www.sagemath.org/doc/inst/node5.html[/HTML] and this guide [HTML]http://www.sagemath.org/download-source.html[/HTML].

Compiling source code of sagemath took soooooooo.... long, but I won't give up to make it works yet.

Thanks for helping me out.

forum4programs said: Hi,

Can somebody point me a free-program that is as good as mathematica (name it X) for ubuntu. Hopefully, X functions also work on mathematica. Similar to "octave and matlab"-case.

The big question here is what do you plan on doing with it. Mathematica's big forte is symbolic manipulation . . . matlab and octave are really meant for number crunching.

I know next to nothing about mathematics (though I've recently purchased Ian Stewart's *Concepts in modern mathematics* to try to remedy that), but for what it's worth:

Genius Mathematics Tool is another option. It's available in the repositories.

B.C.

try this: Install Qalculate

Qalculate is a great program with almost everything imaginable: graphing, calculus, algebra, unit conversions, solving for variables, etc. And totally free. (Click the link above to install... its in the repos)