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kwantam on Nov 3, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Python rocks for research

Maxima rocks for symbolic math. I prefer it to Mathematica, which is saying a lot. In contrast, octave always feels like "almost-Matlab" and I still prefer the latter.

Also see wxMaxima, which will (among many other things) produce LaTeX for you.

nurbl on Nov 3, 2010 [–]

If you haven't already, you might also want to check out Sage (http://www.sagemath.org/) It uses python to "glue" together other free math tools (e.g. Maxima) into a unified system with a nice interface.

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