Mathematica software

[Kipton Moravec]

I believe you are looking for Maxima.  I have all repositories enabled
and it shows up when you search for Maxima. I use the Mathematica book
for documentaton for Maxima.

http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical
expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series,
Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear
equations, and vectors, matrices, and tensors. Maxima produces high
precision results by using exact fractions and arbitrarily long floating
point representations, and can plot functions and data in two and three
dimensions.

The Maxima source code can be compiled on many systems, including
Windows, Linux, and MacOS X. The source code for all systems and
precompiled binaries for Windows and Linux are available at the
SourceForge file manager.

Maxima is a descendant of Macsyma, the legendary computer algebra system
developed in the late 1960s at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. It is the only system based on that effort still publicly
available and with an active user community, thanks to its open source
nature. Macsyma was revolutionary in its day, and many later systems,
such as Maple and Mathematica, were inspired by it.

The Maxima branch of Macsyma was maintained by William Schelter from
1982 until he passed away in 2001. In 1998 he obtained permission to
release the source code under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It
was his efforts and skill which have made the survival of Maxima
possible, and we are very grateful to him for volunteering his time and
expert knowledge to keep the original DOE Macsyma code alive and well.
Since his passing a group of users and developers has formed to bring
Maxima to a wider audience.

We are constantly updating Maxima, to fix bugs and improve the code and
the documentation. We welcome suggestions and contributions from the
community of Maxima users. Most discussion is conducted on the Maxima
mailing list.

On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 15:18 -0600, 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
> 
> 
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Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com>