Maxima

Maxima is not alone one of the oldest and best computer algebra systems around, it is also one of the only general purpose systems for which there is a free implementation. You can get it from

    http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/wfs/maxima.html

The supported version is GCL-based Maxima 5.6. For CLisp-based Maxima 5.6, edit your tm_maxima and replace -load by -i. For Maxima 5.9-pre, replace -load by -p. Known problems:

• If you press return when a statement is not complete (typically, terminated by ; or $), the interface will hang.
• If you cause the Lisp break prompt to appear, the interface will hang.
• The command info is not supported (it is defined in the underlying Lisp, and difficult to support portably).
• Some commands in the debugger work, but some (including :c) don't work, nobody knows why.
• The command load sometimes behaves mysteriously.