Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors. Maxima yields high precision numeric results by using exact fractions, arbitrary precision integers, and variable precision floating point numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in two and three dimensions.

• Maxima's official web site
• Download page - The current MS Windows version is maxima-5.20.1.exe. (Install and use wxMaxima.)
• Portable Maxima - A version of Maxima installs and runs on portable USB drives

wxMaxima Worksheets:

• Basics #1 worksheet   ( html version )
• Basics #2 worksheet   ( html version )
• Basics #3 worksheet   ( html version )
• vect1 package and example worksheet   ( html version )
• Some simple programming examples
• Basics #4 worksheet   ( html version )
• Monkey Saddle graphs

• Section 9.7 #'s  31, 32
• Section 11.2 #'s 113
• Some problems in Section 12.4

• Scilab is a free Matlab-type program 
• Introduction to Scilab

Steve Kifowit Prairie State College Chicago Heights, IL 60411

This page was last updated on August 15, 2010.