Mathics

Mathics is a free, general-purpose online computer algebra system featuring Mathematica-compatible syntax and functions. It is backed by highly extensible Python code, relying on SymPy for most mathematical tasks and, optionally, Sage for more advanced stuff.

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  Use Mathics online

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  Download and install Mathics

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  Get Python if you don't have it already (you probably have it if you're on Linux or a Mac). In addition, you need some libraries. Get them using

  apt-get install python-dev libsqlite3-dev libgmp3-dev

  or something equivalent.

  Download Mathics 0.5

  Unpack it, change to the corresponding directory, and then (as root):

  python setup.py install

  If you have Sage and want to use the optional Sage functions inside Mathics, do the following instead:

  sage -sh
  sage -python setup.py install
  python install_sage_scripts.py
  rm $SAGE_ROOT/local/lib/python/site-packages/setuptools-*.egg

  It might happen that some packages can only be downloaded via SSL. For this to work, SSL support in Sage's version of Python is needed. You might have to do

  apt-get install libssl-dev

  and then rebuild Sage's Python by

  sage -f python

  To initialize your local Mathics server, run

  python initialize.py

  as the user who you want to execute Mathics with (usually not as root).

  Finally, you can run your local Mathics server with

  mathicsserver

  or the console version with

  mathics

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  Get the source code

  Report a bug

Use the Google groups mathics-users for discussions regarding using Mathics and mathics-devel for discussions about development.

Please support Mathics by giving something via Flattr!  

WANTED: Developers! Please contact us at mail(at)mathics.org or via Twitter if you want to be part of this awesome project.

Mathics, mathics.org, and mathics.net are maintained by Jan Pöschko.

Mathics uses MathJax to display beautiful math.