21 Aug
2007
21 Aug
'07
6:58 p.m.
On 8/21/07, Eugene Salamin <gene_salamin@yahoo.com> wrote:
Maple has a student edition. It's $129 for Windows + Linux + Mac OS X. You will be asked for your educational institution and student ID number. I'm very pleased with Maple. A coworker who was a long time Mathematica user tried out Maple, and much preferred Maple. http://www.maplesoft.com/
My dislike of Maple is that new versions often render old programs broken -- they change the language in annoying ways with each new release. You can use PARI/GP for free ... http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/ ... and it might serve your needs. There's also SAGE, but I haven't tried it enough to recommend it myself: http://www.sagemath.org/ --Joshua Zucker