====== Mathematical software ======

===== Commercial software =====


The Physics department has ''Mathematica'' and ''Matlab'' available, and we can make use of these programs for the occasional user.
More information about the [[mathematica]] software licenses.

Note: the campus license for Maple was terminated a couple of years ago.

==== Free / Open Source mathematical software ====

Most of our Linux desktops have the following software installed:

  * [[http://maxima.sourceforge.net/|Maxima]] (and the [[http://andrejv.github.io/wxmaxima/|wxMaxima]] graphical interface) for symbolic computation
  * [[http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/|Octave]] - numerical computations, mostly matlab compatible in syntax
  * [[http://www.r-project.org|R]] - Statistics
  * Python routines like [[http://www.scipy.org|scipy]], [[http://www.numpy.org|numpy]], [[http://matplotlib.org|matplotlib]], [[http://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/ScientificPython/|ScientificPython]] (and more).
  * [[http://www.sagemath.org|Sage]] (Math; Installable on request, due to the size of the package)
  * [[https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeedu/cantor|Cantor]]
  * [[https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeedu/kalgebra|Kalgebra (graph calculator)]]
  * [[https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeedu/kmplot|Kmplot (mathematical function plotter)]]


==== Commercial (licensed) scientific software ====
  * [[general software:IDL]] - commercial data visualization tool / programming language
  * [[general software:Mathematica]]
  * [[general software:Matlab]]
  * Comsol
  * Origin
  * Abaqus