Does your university not provide Mathematica? If not, I highly recommend purchasing Mathematica for students. I love open source software and particularly Pytho

Does your university not provide Mathematica? If not, I highly recommend purchasing Mathematica for students. I love open source software and particularly Python (yet I haven't tried Sage yet...), but Mathematica just strikes me as one of the "great pieces of software" with the likes of emacs, the Linux kernel, and etc.