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Mathematics Archive
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GNU Octave: An interview with John W. Eaton and Jordi Gutiérrez
What a great interview we have for you this week! John W. Eaton, THE developer of GNU Octave, and Jordi Gutiérrez, one of their main developers and organizer …
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WinPython scientific distribution
WinPython is a portable scientific Python distribution for Windows (32 and 64-bits) built on top of NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib and the scientific environment Spyder:
WinPython, a portable scientific Python distribution …
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Maxima on Android
Vadim Konovalov is the main developer on the project Maxima on Android:
Maxima on Android is a port of Maxima on the Android operating system. Thanks to Sylvain Ageneau’ effort …
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wxMaxima 12.09.0 and Maxima 5.28 available for download
wxMaxima 12.09.0 has been released and is included with Maxima 5.28, the open source Computer Algebra System:
Get wxMaxima: wxMaxima.
Get Maxima: Maxima 5.28
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Sage 5.3 available for download
The Sage team just announced the availability of the newest version of their mathematical software environment: Sage 5.3
Announcement: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/sage-announce/CSSiv976bOQ
Download: http://www.sagemath.org/download.html
Learn more about Sage reading our interview with their team: …
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Slides OctConf 2012 – GNU Octave Conference
Jordi Gutiérrez has published a report on OctConf 2012 (GNU Octave Conference) with links to slides of the talks and comments on the outcomes: OctConf 2012 report
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GNU Octave Conference 2012
The GNU Octave Project will held its OctConf 2012 user and developer conference from July 16th to July 20th at the Université de Montréal.
More information here: Is it …
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Video PolyBoRi system for Gröbner bases
PolyBoRi is a computer-algebra framework which is a combined C++/Python system for Gröbner bases. The PolyBoRi blog shared a video presentation of the project:
The PolyBoRi Blog: PolyBoRi …
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Asymptote 2.16 released
Asymptote is a powerful descriptive 2D and 3D vector graphics language for technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax. It provides for figures the same …
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Scilab 5.4.0 beta-1 available
The first beta of Scilab 5.4.0 is available:
Release of Scilab 5.4.0 beta-1 – Scilab WebSite.
Some of the current features were mentioned by Sylvestre Ledru in our interview.

