Math

Maple

Maple does symbolic math and equation solving.

Maple is available for Solaris (SPARC and Intel), Linux (Intel) and Windows platforms.

To run Maple:

On UNIX systems:

/s/std/bin/maple

On Windows systems:

Run | Maple from the Start menu

See Also:

• Waterloo Maple home page (author of Maple)

Matlab

Matlab is billed as "Numeric computation, technical graphics and visualization, and an intuitive programming language for applications in engineering and science".

Matlab is available for Solaris/SPARC, Linux (Intel) and Windows platforms. The current Matlab release is release 7.

To run Matlab:

On UNIX systems:

/s/std/bin/matlab

Note: Unix now invokes a GUI desktop with Java Virtual Machine now. To disable the GUI desktop and JVM, invoke Matlab with the -nojvm option.

On Windows systems:

Run | Matlab from the Start menu

Note:If you want to save customizations to your Matlab environment (such as custom search paths), you will need to create a U:\.matlab\R12-NT directory to save your customizations in before you try to run Matlab.

We have licensed the following toolboxes for use with Matlab:

• Optimization Toolbox
• Splines Toolbox
• Symbolic Toolbox
• Extended Symbolic Toolbox
• Image Processing Toolbox
• Statistics Toolbox
• Partial Differential Equation Toolbox
• Wavelet Toolbox
• C/C++ Math Library
• Matlab Compiler

See Also:

• MathWorks home page (author of Matlab)