Maxima 
[http://maxima.sf.net]
is an open-source work-(much-)alike to Mathematica
[http://wolfram.com].
It descends from Macsyma
[http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?MACSYMA].  Its 
default interface is constructed with [Tk].

It's also: 1) a car, 2) a princess, 3) the plural of the Latin & Dutch "maximum"
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[TV] I'm looking into maxima for reasons of lack of mathematica license, and because there are at leasthalf a dozen applications I find interesting for mathematical symbolic manipulation, including a tcl formula manipulator, physics problems, maybe my string simulator, (electronic) network analysis, maybe drawing certain graphs, etc, and a bit of mathematical recreation of course.

I've downloaded the windows version, (see above) june 2004, which works fine, and shows for isntance these pictures by just a few clicks:

[http://82.168.209.239/wiki/maxima1.jpg]

[http://82.168.209.239/wiki/maxima2.jpg]

In the bottom window, double click on the blue links to make them work.

There might be a version with a nicer special fonts prettyprinter, maybe on linux, I didn't try (yet).


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