Matlab is all over finance as well. I haven't used it personally so I can't comment. A lot of quant finance is matrix driven, something which Matlab was made fo

Matlab is all over finance as well. I haven't used it personally so I can't comment. A lot of quant finance is matrix driven, something which Matlab was made for. Mathematica is perhaps a bit more algebraic and general purpose, but again I don't know much about Matlab's capabilities.