Nifty math-related programs

Some useful open-source algebra and math systems:

Mathomatic (Wikipedia entry): Very small and lightweight (It's been ported to the DS) CAS with manipulation of symbolic expressions, equation simplification and solving, calculus transforms.

PARI/GP (Wikipedia): More powerful for numeric work and number crunching.

Maxima (Wikipedia): Symbolic expressions.

Octave (Wikipedia): Linear algebra workhorse. MATLAB clone.

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Don't forget R

If your math problem is a statistics or modeling problem, the most powerful open source stats package is R (Wikipedia)

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