Useful programs for Mathematics

In this page you will find links to several useful programs for mathematics , Most of the programs run on Linux and other Unix-like operative systems, but some of them run on Windows. Moreover most of them are free software.

TeX

TeX is a text processing system written by Donald Knuth , that is specially well- adapted for writing mathematics. It has become the standard used by all the mathematical community.

• Comprehensive Tex Archive: Everything about TeX
• Lyx : Lets you write in LaTeX, seeing what you are writing at the same time! (Under GNU GPL)
• TeXnicCenter An IDE for writing LaTeX documents on Windows. (GPL)
• WinShell : A TeX Shell for windows
• gBib A friendly editor for BibTeX bibliographies, that can comunicate with LyX. (GPL)
• Donald E. Knuth's personal homepage (the author of TeX).

ChiWriter is an old program for writing mathemathics (for MS-DOS). It is propietary software.

Computer Algebra Systems

• Yacas :A small and flexible computer algebra system (under GNU GPL)
• MuPAD : The Open Algebra System
• Pari : For number theory. Now under GNU GPL.

Programs for plotting graphics of functions and data

• Gnuplot
• GNU Plotutils : Several utilities for making graphics ; including "ode" , a simple program for plotting solutions to ordinary differential equations.
• Geq : A simple program for plotting 2D functions using the GTK+ libraries.
• GtkGraph : ídem.

Numerical Calculus

• GNU Octave : A program for making all kinds of numerical computations. It has a Matlab compatible syntax , and lets you plot graphics using gnuplot. (under GNU GPL)
• Goctave : A user-friendly front-end for Octave , under the Gnome desktop.
• Auto : For continuation and bifurcation problems in ordinary differential equations.
• Cactus : A program for numerically solving partial differential equations.

Libraries (useful for writing mathematical programs)

• GNU MP (The GNU Multiple precision arithmetic library) : a library for making computations with integers, rational and float point numbers with arbitrary precision.
• CLN : A library of C++ classes for different kinds of numbers.

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