Symbolic computation on Fedora

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:18:33 +0200
Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I need to do symbolic computation from time to time on my Fedora
> machine.  So far I have tried maxima, which seems quite good for
> simple things but often fails to give me any usable results for more
> complicated cases.  Acquiring Mathematica licenses is not feasible at
> the moment; so my question is what other alternatives have people used
> and liked?
> 
> So far I have come across these:
> 
> 1. SymPy - this seems a bit lacking in features (what I could gather
>    from the Wikipedia page as the project page is rather sparse).
> 2. Sage - this seems to be quite well mature but non-trivial to
> maintain an installation.
> 
> Anyone has any opinions?

There seems to be a big bunch of free Computer Algebra Systems, see e.g.

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

I've mainly used Maple (proprietary) and Maxima (GPL) for my work.
-- 
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org