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Somewhat unrelated but I would like to also mention Maxima (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ http://maxima.sourceforge.net/), which used to be maintained by the l
by abawany 7y ago
Somewhat unrelated but I would like to also mention Maxima (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ http://maxima.sourceforge.net/), which used to be maintained by the late Dr. Schelter and is still updated. Here is a link to an old comparison between it and Mathematica: https://luckytoilet.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/beginners-comparison-of-computer-algebra-systems-mathematica-maxima-maple/ https://luckytoilet.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/beginners-compa... .
- gnufx 7y agoIt could be related though Fateman's latest Mockmma, linked from https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/ https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/. (He got a legal threat from Wolfram over the original version long ago.) Other free general symbolic algebra systems are available, of course, like the venerable Reduce and Axiom.
- enriquto 7y agoI used to use mockmma a lot as an undergraduate, because it started much faster than mathematica and it could run exactly the same programs. I wonder why mathics does not keep exact compatibility of the language.
- pfortuny 7y agoFateman was (is?) one of the main contributors!to maxima. Quite a helpful guy, also.
- gnufx 7y agoPer Fateman's page, he worked on Macsyma (which was eventually freed as Macsyma) at least from the early '70s, probably late '60s. REDUCE is a similar age.