From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 30 02:00:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA26793 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 02:00:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA26777 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 02:00:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hafner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) Received: from hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ([131.159.0.200] EHLO hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ident: root [port 4364]) by tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de with ESMTP id <111839-240>; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:00:15 +0000 Received: from hafner@localhost by hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de id <24223-662>; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:59:40 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: andriss@argate.com Subject: Re: maple or mathematica References: From: Walter Hafner Date: 30 Sep 1998 10:59:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: andriss@argate.com's message of "30 Sep 1998 07:21:37 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 36 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG andriss@argate.com (Andriss) writes: > I have some info om mathematica for linux, > but is there a native FreeBSD port of this > program? > > More importantly, is there Maple for FreeBSD? Unfortunately, neither of them exists for FreeBSD. > Since Gimp exists as a GNU alternative to > Adobe, maybe (I hope) there is some math > package that has similar capabilities as > mathematica or maple? For my needs (PhD thesis in stochastic image processing) a combination of Octave and gnuplot worked quite well - for matrix number crunching and display, that is. Both of them are on the CD set. There are a few more tools for numerical mathematics that run on FreeBSD: mupad, scilab,... aswell as tools to display the results: ace/gr, ... Unfortunately, there's no free tool for symbolic mathematics. I always ended up using Maple on a Solaris machine. regards, -Walter Hafner PS: If you do mostly numeric mathematics, Matlab (the commercial version) is the tool of choice! -- Walter Hafner_______________________________ hafner@in.tum.de *CLICK* The best observation I can make is that the BSD Daemon logo is _much_ cooler than that Penguin :-) (Donald Whiteside) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message