Mathematica software

[Bob Nielsen]

On Jan 15, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Charles Malespin wrote:

> Hi all, I am learning mathematica in school right now and I want to  
> know
> if there is a similar program for ubuntu that I can use on my box at
> home.  How different are they?  I would like somthing very similar  
> so Im
> not learning two differnt programs to do the same thing.  Thanks,
> Charles


Probably the closest to Mathematica is scilab, which is available as  
a Ubuntu package.  I don't know how similar they are.

Wolfram makes a version of Mathematica for Linux.  I don't believe it  
is available as a .deb package, however one could probably convert it  
with alien.  There is a student version which is undoubtedly less  
expensive than the professional version, but definitely not free (as  
in speech or beer).