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This page will survey open source computer algebra systems (OSCAS's).

A computer algebra system (CAS) is a mathematical software package capable of symbolic manipulation. The commercial CAS industry is big business. Few people know more about the CAS industry than Darren McIntyre, VP of Worldwide Sales at Maplesoft. He estimates the worldwide yearly expenditures on computer algebra (buying licenses, employee salaries, and so on) is at least $ 600 million. Clients include not just students and universities, but diverse industries who often find that a CAS is a convenient programming environment to model industrial problems.

The terrain

Axiom

open source

http://wiki.axiom-developer.org

CADABRA

GPL

http://www.aei.mpg.de/~peekas/cadabra/

DoCon

open source

http://www.haskell.org/docon

GAP

GPL

http://www.gap-system.org

GIAC

GPL

http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html

GINAC

GPL

http://www.ginac.de

GTYBALT

GPL

http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~stefanw/gtybalt/

JScience

BSD

http://www.jscience.org/

LiDIA

"open source"

http://www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/LiDIA/

Macaulay2

GPL

http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/

Magnus

GPL

http://sourceforge.net/projects/magnus/

MAS

"open source"

http://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/mas.html

Mathomatic

LGPL

http://mathomatic.orgserve.de/math/

Maxima

GPL

http://maxima.sourceforge.net

NTL

GPL

http://www.shoup.net/ntl/

Pari

GPL

http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr

SAGE

GPL

http://sage.scipy.org

Scilab

"open source"

http://www.scilab.org

Singular

GPL

http://www.singular.uni-kl.de

Symmetrica

public domain

http://www.mathe2.uni-bayreuth.de/axel/symneu_engl.html

Yacas

GPL

http://yacas.sourceforge.net

I have left out CAFE (Computer Algebra and Functional Equations), a group writing a collection of CAS libraries (see [http://www-sop.inria.fr/cafe/main-e.html CAFE]). They appear to be written in Aldor and Maple by (the late) Manuel Bronstein. I cannot determine the license (if any) they are released under. I am also unsure if the "open source" licenses of LiDIA, MAS, and Scilab are compatible with the above-mentioned open source definition. Several of these are under very active development and some of these are essentially dead. Two other sources of information are the Computer algebra handbook [GKW OSCAS#references] and the internet sites [CA].

Anchor(references)

References

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer_algebra_systems]

[http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/RosettaStone]

  • [GKW] J. Grabmeier, E. Kaltofen, V. Weispfenning, Computer algebra handbook, Springer, 2003.

  • [Mc] D. McIntyre, private communication, 11-2006.

  • [Max] Paulo Ney de Souza, Richard J. Fateman, Joel Moses, Cliff Yapp, The Maxima Book,

19th September 2004. Available online at: [Maxima book http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/maximabook/maximabook-19-Sept-2004.pdf]

[BI-G] A. Ben-Israel, R. Gilbert, Computer-supported calculus, Springer-Verlag, 2002.

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