Mathematical software

Mathematical software is software used to model, analyze or calculate numeric, symbolic or geometric data.^[1]

Evolution of mathematical software

mathematical science or applied mathematics

.
The progress of mathematical information presentation such as TeX or MathML^[2] will demand to evolution form formula manipulation language to true mathematics manipulation language (notwithstanding the problem that whether mathematical theory is inconsistent or not). And popularization of general purpose mathematical software, special purpose mathematical software^[3] so called one purpose software which used special subject will alive with adapting for environment progress at normalization of platform. So the diversity of mathematical software will be kept.

Solvers

A solver is a piece of mathematical software, possibly in the form of a stand-alone computer program or as a software library, that 'solves' a mathematical problem. A solver takes problem descriptions in some sort of generic form and calculates their solution. In a solver, the emphasis is on creating a program or library that can easily be applied to other problems of similar type.

Software calculator

A software calculator allows the user to perform simple mathematical operations, like addition, multiplication, exponentiation and trigonometry. Data input is typically manual, and the output is a text label.

Computer algebra systems

Many mathematical suites are

symbolic mathematics

. They are designed to solve classical algebra equations and problems in human readable notation.

Statistics

Many tools are available for statistical analysis of data. See also Comparison of statistical packages.

Theorem provers and proof assistants

Optimization software

Geometry

Numerical analysis

The

NAG libraries; a free alternative is the GNU Scientific Library. A different approach is taken by the Numerical Recipes

library, where emphasis is placed on clear understanding of algorithms.

Many computer algebra systems (listed above) can also be used for numerical computations.

Music mathematics software

Music mathematics software utilizes mathematics to analyze or synthesize musical symbols and patterns.

Musimat (by Gareth Loy)^[4]

Websites

A growing number of mathematical software is available in web browsers, without the need to download or install any code.^[5]

Programming libraries

Low-level mathematical libraries intended for use within other programming languages:

arbitrary precision arithmetic
.
arbitrary precision arithmetic
.
AMD Core Math Library, a software development library released by AMD
Boost.Math

References

^ See, e.g., the editorial charter of the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software or the problem taxonomy of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Guide to Available Mathematical Software (both retrieved 2015-02-15).
^ Both MathML and TeX may be only simple a kind of computer language which enable also to present the mathematical formula. However they also may be the mathematical software if the term of software interpreted as whole technology on how to use computer, at most wide sense.
^ Included your written script code on the general purpose mathematical software.
^ Musimathics website, freeware download
^ Internet Accessible Mathematical Computation, Institute for Computational Mathematics, Kent State University, retrieved 2015-02-15.

External links

swMATH Database on mathematical software

[1] See, e.g., the editorial charter of the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software or the problem taxonomy of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Guide to Available Mathematical Software (both retrieved 2015-02-15).

[2] Both MathML and TeX may be only simple a kind of computer language which enable also to present the mathematical formula. However they also may be the mathematical software if the term of software interpreted as whole technology on how to use computer, at most wide sense.

[3] Included your written script code on the general purpose mathematical software.

[4] Musimathics website, freeware download

[5] Internet Accessible Mathematical Computation, Institute for Computational Mathematics, Kent State University, retrieved 2015-02-15.

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