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                       SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION PACKAGES



  This is not a comprehensive list. There are other Computer Algebra
  packages available that may better suit your needs. There is an
  Available Packages listing maintained at UC Berkeley. (The list can be
  obtained from math.berkeley.edu via anonymous ftp).


A: Maple
       Purpose: Symbolic and numeric computation, mathematical
       programming, and mathematical visualization.
       Contact: Waterloo Maple Software,
       450 Phillip Street
       Waterloo, Ontario
       N2L 5J2
       Phone (519)747-2373
       FAX   (519)747-5284
       email:  [email protected]
A: DOE-Macsyma
       Purpose: Symbolic and mathematical manipulations.
       Contact: National Energy Software Center
       Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue
       Argonne, Illinois 60439
       Phone: (708) 972-7250
A: Pari
       Purpose: Number-theoretic computations and simple numerical
       analysis.
       Available for most 32-bit machines, including 386+387 and 486.
       This is a copyrighted but free package, available by ftp from
       math.ucla.edu (128.97.4.254) and ftp.inria.fr (128.93.1.26).
       Contact: questions about pari can be sent to [email protected]
       and for the Macintosh versions to [email protected]
A: Mathematica
       Purpose: Mathematical computation and visualization,
       symbolic programming.
       Contact: Wolfram Research, Inc.
       100 Trade Center Drive Champaign,
       IL 61820-7237
       Phone: 1-800-441-MATH
       [email protected]
A: Macsyma
       Purpose: Symbolic numerical and graphical mathematics.
       Contact: Macsyma Inc.
       20 Academy Street
       Arlington, MA 02174
       tel: 617-646-4550
       fax: 617-646-3161
       email: [email protected]
A: Matlab
       Purpose: `matrix laboratory' for tasks involving
       matrices, graphics and general numerical computation.
       Contact: The MathWorks, Inc.
       21 Prime Park Way
       Natick, MA 01760
       508-653-1415
       [email protected]
A: Cayley/Magma
       A: Cayley/Magma
       Cayley is no longer being licenced or supported.
       It has been superseded by a new and more powerful system
       called Magma.
       Purpose: Computation in algebraic, geometric and
       combinatorial structures such as groups, rings, fields,
       algebras, modules, graphs and codes.
       Available for: SUN 3, SUN 4, SUN 10 (SUNOS 4.x and Solaris 2)
       DECstation (Ultrix), DEC Alpha (OSF/1), IBM RS6000 (AIX),
       HP9000/700 (HP-UX), Apollo M680x0, SGI, 486/Pentium (MS-DOS).
       Contact: Computational Algebra Group
       School of Mathematics and Statistics
       University of Sydney
       NSW 2006
       Australia
       Phone:  +61 2 351 3338
       Fax: +61 2 351 4534
       URL: http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/comp/magma/Overview.html
       [email protected]






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