Maxima

Maxima, is a descendant of the revolutionary computer algebra system, Macsyma, is a powerful system created to calculate symbolic and numerical expressions: from vectors, equations and polynomials to Laplace transforms and Taylor series expansion.


This is a very practical and effective tool that can manipulate all types of operations and also can generate graphics in three and two dimensions that you can save in postscript format. Maxima accuracy is excellent since it uses exact fractions.


Maxima interface offers plenty of dialog boxes and menus, plus a large amount of documentation that helps (available in Spanish) and makes it easier to use the app. You can save your work environment in any operation to use it later. Once you've made your operations and formulas, you can save them as image to integrate them into any text document.


Maxima is a calculation engine very powerful and complete, and without any doubt recommended for anyone who works with symbolic and numerical expressions. We can assure that is one of the best computer algebra systems nowadays. You also have the advantage that it is free and open source, what more could you ask for?