Mathematica

From Techrights

Mathematica is a computer algebra system sold by Wolfram Research.

[edit] Danger to Science and Mathematics

Please see this PDF written by Jordi G. H. originally from everything2, and follow up by reading this blog article commenting on the PDF.

[edit] Alternative

These are alternative, fully open source, and free computer algebra systems.

• Maxima and wxMaxima
• Sage
• SymPy and SciPy
• Axiom, OpenAxiom, FriCAS

Some other related libraries

• mpmath, GMP, or MPFR for arbitrary precision computation
• gnuplot for highly configurable and fast plotting
• GNU Octave and QtOctave (front end)