Ask HN: What are all the FOSS programs for various mathematical explorations?

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Post by SkyMarshal » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 11:30 PM UTC

Basically, what are all the FOSS alternatives to things like Matlab and Mathematica? Solvers, visualizers, or anything having to do with computational math. I'm aware of Sage Math, Julia, R, Octave, Numpy, Scipy, and several more I'm forgetting atm, but am pretty sure there are many more. What are they?

https://www.sagemath.org/

https://juliastats.org/

https://www.r-project.org/

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

https://numpy.org/

https://www.scipy.org/

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Re: Ask HN: What are all the FOSS programs for various mathematical explorations?

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Post by jorgebucaran » Sat, Jun 05, 2021, 8:33 AM UTC

Not exactly what you are looking for, but 3blue1brown's https://github.com/3b1b/manim is a great resource all in all.

Re: Ask HN: What are all the FOSS programs for various mathematical explorations?

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Post by ecesena » Sat, Jun 05, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

In addition, https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/

Re: Ask HN: What are all the FOSS programs for various mathematical explorations?

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Post by yesenadam » Sun, Jun 06, 2021, 3:52 PM UTC

I've done geometrical stuff with GNU Prolog's finite domain constraint solver, like finding arrangements of shapes given certain constraints. Documentation is a pain, but it wasn't hard at all to use in practice. And the programs were amazingly short! Virtually one-liners.

http://www.gprolog.org/manual/gprolog.html#sec300

Maybe you know, but Sage contains within itself hundreds of packages—numpy, scipy, matplotlib, PARI, Maxima, GAP etc etc—also many more are optional. Checking out everything in these lists you'd find a lot of other great stuff I'm sure:

https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/spkg/index_alph.h...

https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/spkg/