Best Linux Tools for Mathematics, Scientific calculations, Algebra and Graphs

Mathematics with Linux are very interesting. Below is an overview of main programs for calculation, algebra, and graphs for scientific applications. These programs run on Red Hat Fedora and other Linux branches : Ubuntu / Mint / Arch / Suse / CentOS / Debian / Knoppix

Scientific Calculation

R A language for statistical computing and graphics (R-core)

rkward IDE/GUI for the R-project

calctool A multi-GUI (terminal, X, XView) calculator program

Sage. It's basically a Mathematica/Maple replacement.

Maxima Symbolic mathematics program. like Maple and Mathematica (maxima-gui wxMaxima)

octave High-level interactive language for numerical computations clone of Matlab

octave-forge Many additional features to math/octave

rascal The Advanced Scientific CALculator

scigraphica A scientific application for data analysis and technical graphics

scilab A free Matlab clone by INRIA & ENPC

petsc Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific computation Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific computation Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific computation

sage sagemath basically a Mathematica/Maple replacement.

gsl GNU Scientific Library http://www.gnu.org/s/gsl/

SpeedCrunch Fast, high precision and powerful desktop calculato http://speedcrunch.org/en_US/index.html

mathomatic computer Algebra system (CAS) and calculator

Root Data Analysis http://root.cern.ch/drupal/

Graphing-Plotting

biggles Create publication-quality 2D scientific plots

linux-dislin A scientific data plotting package

ngraph A XY plotting tool for students, scientists and engineers

qscanplot A program to extract data from scanned plots, graphs and figures

lybniz Mathematical function graph plotter

matplotlib Python plotting library http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/

GGobi Data Visualization http://www.ggobi.org/

G3DATA Extracting data from graphs http://www.frantz.fi/software/g3data.php

gnuplot graphing tool

grace WYSIWYG tool to make two-dimensional plots of numerical data

Diverses

py-gato A Python-based toolbox to visualise algorithms on graphs

py-gnuplot Python interface to gnuplot plotting program

py-gsl Python interface to GNU Scientific Library

py-numeric The Numeric Extension to Python

py-numeric17 The Numeric Extension to Python

py-probstat Probability And Statistics Utils for Python

py-scientific Collection of Python modules for scientific computing

SciPy Scientific tools for Python http://www.scipy.org/

Spyder Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment http://packages.python.org/spyder/

Units

GNU Units Scale converter http://www.gnu.org/s/units/