[plt-scheme] Mathematics software

There is also Sage (http://www.sagemath.org./) that was featured in a recent
Slashdot post (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/08/1350258)
recently.  It is based on Python, but it would be nice to have a similar
open-source capability for PLT Scheme.  I haven't played with it, but I'm
downloading it now.  I'd love to upgrade the science collection and PLoT
along these lines.  I would rather have a pure open-source solution.  The
commercial solutions like Mathematica are rather expensive for those of us
doing this on our own outside of the academic community.

Doug

On Dec 11, 2007 2:27 PM, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:

> ??
>
> Robby
>
> On Dec 11, 2007 1:10 PM, Chongkai Zhu <czhu at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> > Bill Wood wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 10:21 -0700, Chongkai Zhu wrote:
> > >    . . .
> > >
> > >> When it comes to "interact with Scheme", then (I suppose you want a
> > >> computer algebra system here) there is Maxima/Axiom/Mathematica/JACAL
> > >> for choice (please remind me if there is more). Maxima and Axiom are
> > >> writtem in Lisp. I don't know much about Axiom. Maxima can interact
> with
> > >> (Common) Lisp quite well. But actual development of both has been a
> stop
> > >> for 15 years (or more). ...
> > >>
> > >
> > > Open-source versions of both Maxima and Axiom are under active
> > > development right now.
> > >
> > > For maxima see
> > >
> > >     http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
> > >
> > > and for Axiom see
> > >
> > >     http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/FrontPage
> > >
> > >  -- Bill Wood
> > >
> >
> > I know. But I call that maintaining instead of developing.
> >
> > Chongkai
> >
> >
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