[Tugindia] maths software hassle

[Amitabh Trehan]

> The 'big 5 free software choices' for doing mathematics, in my
> opinion, are:
> 
>    Octave               (GPL implementation of a subset of matlab)
>    R                    (GPL implementation of 'S')
>    maxima               MIT Macsyma, symbolic math
>    GSL                  Gnu scientific library
>    gnuplot              Nice scientific graphics.
> 
> I would strongly recommend each of these packages; they're really
> good.
> 
>         -ans.
> 
Have you had a look at SciLab? from INRIA France.

Amitabh