Course Resources

free software

Graphs and plotting GnuPlot - 2/3D plotting for functions and data sets by T. Williams & C. Kelley PSPLOT - FORTRAN-callable postscript library by Kevin E. Kohler Geomview - Interactive 3D viewing for Unix Programming Perl - interpreted language by Larry Wall Python - object oriented interpreted language by Guido van Rossum Gnu - tons of software, incl. gcc (C), g++ (C++), g77 (FORTRAN), etc. Mathematics Maxima - symbolic PARI/GP - number theory GAP - computational discrete algebra Scilab - scientific software for numerical computations Octave - numerical computations by John W. Eaton et al. GraphCalc - Graphing calculator Mathematical typesetting TeX - *the* math typesetting suite by Don Knuth et al. GhostScript - PostScript (and PDF) interpreter and viewer Screen Presentation Tools - Resources for making mathematical presentations X windows and UNIX Linux - complete SysV Unix/X windows environment by Linus Torvalds et al. Cygwin - Unix/X running under Windows Archiving and compression gzip - compression bzip - compression