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Maximum Calculus with Maxima (Linux Journal)
Linux Journal examines using the Maxima computer algebra system for doing calculus. "Putting all these techniques together, you can solve a differential equation for a given variable—for example, solve dy/dx = f(x) for y. You can do this by doing all the required algebra and calculus, but you don't really need to. Maxima has the very powerful function, ode2, which can do it in one step."
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Maximum Calculus with Maxima (Linux Journal) Posted Jul 15, 2011 2:37 UTC (Fri) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] The Maxima download page mentions Slackware binaries, but I couldn't find them. Oh well; building from the source tarball worked fine "out of the box" (FWIW I run 32-bit Slackware 13.37). Nifty little program—I'm still figuring out how to use all its features. The 2D graphs are neat, and the 3D graphs are beautiful. Thanks for the link. P.S. In case anyone else runs into the little dilemma I had trying to exit Maxima from within a command prompt, then be sure to type quit();
Maxima is wonderful Posted Jul 15, 2011 12:42 UTC (Fri) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
I used Maxima a bit in order to check my university assignments a few years back, and I loved it. It's really useful to have a program that tells you if you're right or wrong :)
Maximum Calculus with Maxima (Linux Journal) Posted Jul 15, 2011 16:00 UTC (Fri) by JohnLenz (subscriber, #42089) [Link] If anyone is interested in this, I suggest you check out Sage. It is a python frontend/web GUI to glue together all the different open source mathematics software, including maxima. It is essentially a common python interface between the different mathematics software. Sage has good documentation, and you can even try it free online.
Maximum Calculus with Maxima (Linux Journal) Posted Jul 15, 2011 17:24 UTC (Fri) by cry_regarder (subscriber, #50545) [Link]
A difficulty with sage is that it is distribution unfriendly. This page tracks the progress in debundling and packaging components for fedora:
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