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Cantor
Cantor is a front-end for many mathematical software applications like Sage, Maxima, R and KAlgebra. Cantor belongs to The KDE Education Project and lets you use your favorite mathematical applications from within a nice KDE-integrated Worksheet Interface. It offers assistant dialogs for common tasks and allows you to share your worksheets with others.
Cantor's main features are:
- Nice Worksheet view for evaluating expressions
- View of plotting results inside the worksheet or in a separate window
- Easy plugin based structure to add different Backends
GetHotNewStuff integration to upload/download example worksheets
- Typesetting of mathematical formulas using LaTeX
- Backend aware syntax highlighting
- Plugin based assistant dialogs for common tasks (like integrating a function or entering a matrix)
Install Cantor
Sage Days 20 -- Marseille, France (February 22-26, 2010); theme: Combinatorics
Sage Days 20.5 -- Toronto, Canada (May 3-7, 2010); theme: Algebraic Combinatorics,
Here a way to build only cantor 
1- First obtain the sources ... See More svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdeedu/cantor
2- Replace the the content of cantor/CMakeLists.txt with this
3- Type this 4 commands
cd cantor mkdir build cd build cmake ../
You can choose where to install with this param DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX For example: cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/ ../
4- Type this command
make install
Using Sage with Cantor
- Worksheet managment ...
Links
Official Site - http://edu.kde.org/cantor/
Author's Blog - http://arieder.wordpress.com/
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