MATLAB replacement

[marwex89]

Hello guys!

I was just wondering if anybody knew about a free/cheap piece of software similar to MATLAB, basically just for making an otherwise slow and boring math study a bit more fun.. Not that the math in itself is boring, but my teachers certainly are.

Most importantly, I would like something a bit visual - something that lets you play around with geometry, functions and the like (on a non-primary school level). If it could be integrated with e.g. C, that would be a good thing. I can do the number crunching and calculations with almost any programming language, so that isn't as important.

If no such thing exists, I guess I could try making something like that myself. That would probably be a learning experience, but I doubt I'll have time for that.

Thanks in advance,
marwex

[Irfan_A]

Have you tried this:
This is open source i think.

Euler Math Toolbox
Euler Math Toolbox - News


Look in Features, EuMathT have interactive program with a syntax similar to Matlab and include Maxima.

[marwex89]

That looks really neat! Thanks and +rep

[Predictor]

I was just wondering if anybody knew about a free/cheap piece of software similar to MATLAB, ...

There are a few (more-or-less) drop-in replacements for MATLAB, such as Octave and SciLab, though I couldn't tell you anything about them as I've never used them.

Farther afield are other languages and software packages which are not MATLAB-compatible but which do some of the same things, auch as APL, Python and R.