The openSUSE build service contains various scientific applications which can be easily installed using the 1-click installation technology introduced in openSUSE 10.3. Among these, of particular importance for Maths, we have three powerful tools like:
Maxima is a symbolic manipulation software descending from Macsyma, developed at MIT, which was an inspiration for modern symbolic manipulators.
Scilab is an open source numerical computation platform developed in France by the Scilab Consortium at INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique). It allows interoperability due to its open nature and can be used together with data acquisition systems and provides tools for process control analysis, image manipulation, data handling, finite elements analysis too.
- Octave (available in the OSS openSUSE repository and on DVD)
Octave is a high level language for numerical computation with a high degree of compatibility with Matlab.
Enjoy 🙂