●●● From Techrights
Mathematica is a computer algebra system sold by Wolfram Research.
●● Danger to Science and Mathematics
Please see this PDF written by Jordi G. H. originally from everything2, and follow up by reading this blog article commenting on the PDF.
●● Alternative
These are alternative, fully open source, and free computer algebra systems.
Maxima and wxMaxima
SymPy and SciPy
Axiom, OpenAxiom, FriCAS
Some other related libraries
mpmath, GMP, or MPFR for arbitrary precision computation
gnuplot for highly configurable and fast plotting
GNU Octave and QtOctave (front end)
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