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Encyclopedia > Mathematical software

Mathematical software is a type of software genre which has mathematics in common. A software genre is a classification of software by its common function, type or topic. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Mathematics Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: Mathematics Look up Mathematics on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikimedia Commons has more media related to: Mathematics Bogomolny, Alexander: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles. ...

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Mathematical software suites

Many mathematical suites are computer algebra systems that use symbolic mathematics. They are designed to solve classical algebra equations and problems in human readable notation. A computer algebra system (CAS) is a software program that facilitates symbolic mathematics. ... Symbolic mathematics, or symbolic math, relates to the use of computers to manipulate mathematical equations and expressions in symbolic form, as opposed to manipulating the approximations of specific numerical quantities represented by those symbols. ...


Computer Algebra Systems

A computer algebra system (CAS) is a software program that facilitates symbolic mathematics. ... Axiom is a computer algebra system. ... Derive is a Computer algebra system, developed as a successor to MuMATH by the Soft Warehouse in Honolulu, Hawaii, now owned by Texas Instruments. ... GAP (Groups, Algorithms and Programming) is a computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra similar to Mathematica with particular emphasis on, but not restricted to, computational group theory. ... Maple is a general purpose commercial computer algebra system. ... MathCad is a computer algebra system similar to Mathematica, distributed by Mathsoft. ... Mathematica is a widely-used computer algebra system originally developed by Stephen Wolfram and sold by his company Wolfram Research. ... MATLAB refers to both the numerical computing environment and to its core programming language. ... For other uses of Maxima, see Maxima (disambiguation). ... The Mozart Programming System is a multi-platform implementation of the Oz programming language developed by the Mozart Consortium. ... Oz is a multi-paradigm programming language. ... Octave is a free computer program for performing numerical computations, which is mostly compatible with MATLAB. It is part of the GNU project. ... Scilab is a open-source numerical computational package developed by INRIA, France. ... SciPy is an open source library of high-quality scientific tools for the Python programming language. ... Yacas is an open source, general-purpose, easy-to-use computer algebra system. ...

Statistics

FOCUS is a software product of Information Builders Inc. ... JMP is a computer program for performing simple and complex statistical analyses. ... Minitab is a computer program designed to perform basic and advanced statistical functions. ... GNU PSPP is the name of a computer program used for performing statistical analysis on sampled data. ... RKWard is an easy to use, transparent frontend to the R programming language, a very powerful, yet hard-to-get-into scripting-language with a strong focus on statistic functions. ... The R programming language, sometimes described as GNU S, is a mathematical language and environment used for statistical analysis and display. ... S is a statistical programming language developed by John Chambers of Bell Laboratories. ... The SAS System, originally Statistical Analysis System, is an integrated system of software products provided by the SAS Institute that enables the programmer to perform: data entry, retrieval, management, and mining report writing and graphics statistical and mathematical analysis business planning, forecasting, and decision support operations research and project management... SPSS is a statistical program used by many businesses and academic institutions around the world. ... WebFOCUS operational business intelligence from Information Builders, Inc. ...

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Numerical analysis

Main article: List of numerical analysis software

The Netlib repository contains various collections of software routines for numerical problems, mostly in Fortran and C. Commercial products implementing many different numerical algorithms include the IMSL and NAG libraries; a free alternative is the GNU Scientific Library. A different approach is taken by the Numerical Recipes library, where emphasis is placed on clear understanding of algorithms. Listed here are a number of computer programs used for performing numerical calculations: MATLAB is a widely-used program for performing numerical calculations. ... Netlib, www. ... Fortran (also FORTRAN) is a statically typed, compiled imperative computer programming language originally developed in the 1950s and still heavily used for scientific computing and numerical computation half a century later. ... The C Programming Language, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the original edition that served for many years as an informal specification of the language The C programming language is a standardized imperative computer programming language developed in the early 1970s by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for use on the... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Numerical Recipes is the generic term for the following books on algorithms and numerical analysis, all by William Press, Saul Teukolsky, William Vetterling and Brian Flannery: Numerical Recipes in C++. The Art of Scientific Computing, ISBN 0-521-75033-4. ...


Many computer algebra systems (listed above) can also be used for numerical computations. A computer algebra system (CAS) is a software program that facilitates symbolic mathematics. ...


Programming libraries

Low-level libraries intended for use within other programming languages:

  • GMP, the GNU Multi-Precision Library for extremely fast arbitrary-precision numerical calculations.

The GNU Multiple-Precision Library, also known as GMP, is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. ... The GNU Multiple-Precision Library, also known as GMP, is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. ...

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