![]() ![]() Try the three of them, try the suggested alternatives and settle with the ones that you like and that meet your needs the best. I’ve chosen one program for each of the 3 macro categories: symbolic, numeric and statistical computing, but you can expect quite a bit of overlapping and shared functionalities. They are rather general purpose softwares, but there are plenty of other specialized open source programs if you have specific needs. ![]() All of them have advantages and drawbacks and none of them can be considered perfect or infallible, but I consider them some of the best available today in their respective categories. And with no cost, they are great for all the different careers with a math degree. In this short article I propose well known programs that will give you a lot of flexibility and math crunching fun. This can also affect or limit a “sharing oriented” environment like the academic and research fields. The secondary disadvantages are those caused by the fact that such programs are proprietary. Their price tags however are a big let down for many people, even if there are cheap (in some cases crippled) versions available for educational purposes (if you are a student or a teacher). Programs like Mathematica, Maple and Matlab are incredibly powerful, flexible and usually well documented and supported. Mathematical software can be very expensive. ![]()
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