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- installed by default in Ubuntu
- installed by default in Kubuntu
- installed by default in Edubuntu
- Main (officially supported) Ubuntu repository, not installed by default
- Universe (community maintained) repository
- Multiverse (non-free) repository

Those installed by default are in Main (officially supported) Ubuntu repository. For information about the Ubuntu repositories see Repositories. Clicking on the icon next a program should take you to information about the Ubuntu package.

Mathematics

• GDL - GNU Data Language is a high level language for numerical computations and data visualization similar to IDL (Interactive Data Language from Research Systems Inc.).

• Octave - GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. (Similar to MATLAB). Octave

• SciCraft - Add-on to Octave, clones Simulink. Still in development, blocks have to be written by the user. It is supposed to specialize in bioinformatics functions.

• Scilab - Another MATLAB-like application.

• SciCos - A free Simulink-like add-on to Scilab.

• Maxima - A computer algebra system (xmaxima is its X interface).

  • wxMaxima - A nice front end for Maxima.

  • The wxmaxima package doesn't work in Ubuntu 6.06. Please go to the wxMaxima page in this wiki for a work around.

  • Here is a tutorial about using TeXmacs as a Maxima frontend

  • imaxima embeds a Maxima session in Emacs and uses LaTeX to render output

• Mathomatic - A small, easy to use, command-line computer algebra system.

• GNU MP - GNU Multi-Precision arithmetic library. Useful if you need to use very big numbers in a C program.

• GSL - The Gnu Scientific Library.

• OOStatistics - A statistics macro for OpenOffice Calc.

• freefem - A partial differential equation oriented language using Finite Element Method - 2D and 3D versions.

• OpenFOAM - A former commercial computational fluid dynamics code that is now under GPL, see end of this page and

  • OpenFOAM has instructions on how to install OpenFOAM on Ubuntu.

• SciPy - An open source library of scientific tools for Python.

  • SciPy CookBook

  • A wiki page similar to this one.

• SymPy - An open source computer algebra system (CAS) for Python.

• F2PY - Fortran to Python interface generator provides a connection between Python and Fortran languages.

• GiNaC - C++ library for symbolic computations.

• SAGE - An open source computer algebra system. Their goal is to create a viable free and open source alternative to the commercial programs Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB.

• Mathematica - A proprietary computer algebra system. Mathematica

• Maple - A proprietary computer algebra system. Maple

• IDL - A proprietary data visualization & data analysis platform.

• MATLAB - A proprietary numerical computing environment and programming language .MATLAB

• GeoGebra - A free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. It received several international awards including the European and German educational software awards. Geogebra

• PDL - Perl Data Language is a powerful data mathematics and data manipulation package for Perl.

• Mupad - A proprietary computer algebra system.

• Clucalc - A tool for 3D visualisations, Clifford algebras and scientific calculations.

• AUTO 2000 - Software for continuation and bifurcation problems in ordinary differential equations.

• GAP - Groups, Algorithms, Programming - a System for Computational Discrete Algebra.

• Pari/GP - designed for fast computations in number theory.

• Aribas - an interactive interpreter for big integer arithmetic and multi-precision floating point arithmetic

• Yacas - an easy to use, general purpose Computer Algebra System, a program for symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions.

• Cadabra - a field-theory motivated approach to computer algebra.

• Veusz - GUI scientific plotting and graphing package.

Statistics

• SPSS The proprietary statistical reference package. Written in Java, since version 16 (currently 17) runs on Linux, although it has some problems with Compiz Fusion (Solution: sudo gedit /etc/environment. Add at the end: AWT_TOOLKIT="MToolkit". Save and restart).

• PSPP/PSPPIRE It is intended as a free replacement of the proprietary program SPSS. PSPPIRE is the PSPP GUI.

• R - for statistical computing and graphics.

  • JGR - Java GUI for R.

  • RKWard - An easy to use, transparent front end to the R language.

  • Some R tutorials and examples.

  • R Graph Gallery - Collection of graphics that can be created using R. Includes the R commands used to create the graphics.

• ODStatistics - a set of LibreOffice macros for descriptive statistics

Ubuntu Packages: Mathematics Section

• 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04.