Comparison of numerical analysis software

The following tables provide a comparison of numerical analysis
Numerical analysis
Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation for the problems of mathematical analysis ....

software.

General

	Creator	Development started	First public release	Latest stable version	License	Notes
ADMB ADMB ADMB or AD Model Builder is a free and open source software suite for non-linear statistical modeling. It was created by David Fournier and now being developed by the ADMB Project, a creation of the non-profit ADMB Foundation...	D. Fournier, ADMB Project			9.1 / 2009	New BSD License	Automatic differentiation makes it well suited to complex minimization problems
DADiSP DADiSP DADiSP is a computer program developed by DSP Development Corporation which allows one to display and manipulate data series, matrices and images in an environment similar to a spreadsheet....	DSP Development	1984	1986	6.5 / 2010	Proprietary	Numeric computations for science and engineering featuring a spreadsheet Spreadsheet A spreadsheet is a computer application that simulates a paper accounting worksheet. It displays multiple cells usually in a two-dimensional matrix or grid consisting of rows and columns. Each cell contains alphanumeric text, numeric values or formulas... like interface.
Euler Math Toolbox	R. Grothmann	1987	1988	9.4 / 2010	GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	Also a computer algebra system through interface with Maxima
Fityk Fityk Fityk is a curve fitting and data analysis application, predominantly used to fit analytical,bell-shaped functions to experimental data.It is positioned to fill the gap between general plotting softwareand programs specific for one field, eg...	M. Wojdyr		2002	1.0.1 / 2011	GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	interactive graphics, scriptable, specialized in curve fitting and peak fitting, 2D only
FreeMat FreeMat FreeMat is a free open source numerical computing environment and programming language, similar to MATLAB and GNU Octave. In addition to supporting many MATLAB functions and some IDL functionality, it features a codeless interface to external C, C++, and Fortran code, further parallel distributed...	Samit Basu			4.0 / October 09, 2009	GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	Codeless interface to external C C (programming language) C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.... , C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... , and Fortran Fortran Fortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing... code. Mostly compatible with MATLAB.
GAUSS GAUSS (software) GAUSS is a matrix programming language for mathematics and statistics, developed and marketed by Aptech Systems. Its primary purpose is the solution of numerical problems in statistics, econometrics, time-series, optimization and 2D- and 3D-visualization...	Aptech Systems		1984	9.0 / May 2008	Proprietary	mainly used in econometrics
IGOR Pro IGOR Pro IGOR Pro is a scientific data analysis software, numerical computing environment and programming language that runs on Windows or Mac operating systems. It is developed by WaveMetrics Inc., and was originally aimed at time series analysis, but has since then evolved and covers other applications...	WaveMetrics	1986	1988	6.03A / 2008	Proprietary	interactive graphics, programmable, 2D/3D, used for science and engineering, large data sets.
jBEAM	AMS	1998	1999	6.4 / 2010	Proprietary	mathematics, interactive graphics 2D/3D, scriptable, used for science and engineering, very large data sets, desktop or client/server, open Java framework
JHepWork JHepWork jHepWork is an interactive framework for scientific computation, data analysis and data visualization designed for scientists, engineers and students...	S.Chekanov (jwork.org)	2005	2005	3.1 / 2011	Free for non-commercial use	mathematics, data analysis, data mining, interactive 2D/3D graphics, Java scriptable, used for science and engineering, Cross-platform Cross-platform In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms... (written in Java)
LabVIEW LabVIEW LabVIEW is a system design platform and development environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments. LabVIEW provides engineers and scientists with the tools needed to create and deploy measurement and control systems.The graphical language is named "G"...	National Instruments National Instruments National Instruments Corporation, or NI , is an American company with over 5,000 employees and direct operations in 41 countries. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it is a producer of automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software...		1985	2010 / August 2010	Proprietary	Graphical and textual (.m file script) programming approaches
Maple Maple (software) Maple is a general-purpose commercial computer algebra system. It was first developed in 1980 by the Symbolic Computation Group at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada....	Maplesoft	1980	1982	14 / 2010	Proprietary	Mainly a computer algebra system Computer algebra system A computer algebra system is a software program that facilitates symbolic mathematics. The core functionality of a CAS is manipulation of mathematical expressions in symbolic form.-Symbolic manipulations:...
Mathcad MathCad Mathcad is computer software primarily intended for the verification, validation, documentation and re-use of engineering calculations. First introduced in 1986 on DOS, it was the first to introduce live editing of typeset mathematical notation, combined with its automatic computations...	Parametric Technology Corporation Parametric Technology Corporation Parametric Technology Corporation is a U.S.-based company that develops, markets and supports software for product development. Its main products are for CAD/CAM, engineering calculations, and product lifecycle management. Its customers include companies in manufacturing, publishing, services,...	1985	1986	14.0 / February 12, 2007	Proprietary	Mainly a computer algebra system Computer algebra system A computer algebra system is a software program that facilitates symbolic mathematics. The core functionality of a CAS is manipulation of mathematical expressions in symbolic form.-Symbolic manipulations:...
Mathematica Mathematica Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing...	Wolfram Research	1986	1988	8.0.4 / October 2011	Proprietary	mainly computer algebra system
MATLAB MATLAB MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and fourth-generation programming language. Developed by MathWorks, MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages,...	MathWorks	the late 1970s		R2010b / September 3, 2010	Proprietary	Numerical computation, mainly used by engineers.
GNU Data Language GNU data language The GNU Data Language is a free, compatible alternative to IDL .. Version 0.9.1, released in March 2011, has full syntax compatibility with IDL 7.1 and supports some IDL 8.0 language elements as well. GDL is in beta stage of development...	Marc Schellens		2004	0.9.1 / 2011	GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	aimed as a drop-in replacement for IDL/PV-WAVE
GNU Octave GNU Octave GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command-line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with MATLAB...	John W. Eaton	1988	1993	3.4.0 / 2011	GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	mostly compatible with MATLAB
Origin Origin (software) Origin is a proprietary computer program for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis. It is produced by OriginLab Corporation, and runs on Microsoft Windows...	OriginLab		1991	8.0 SR4 / 2008	Proprietary	interactive graphics, programmable, 2D/3D, used for science and engineering, large data sets.
Perl Data Language Perl Data Language PDL is a set of array programming extensions to the Perl programming language.PDL is an extension to Perl v5, intended for scientific and other data intensive programming tasks...	Karl Glazebrook	late 1990s	c. 1997	2.4.7 / 2010	Artistic License Artistic License The Artistic License refers most commonly to the original Artistic License , a software license used for certain free and open source software packages, most notably the standard Perl implementation and most CPAN modules, which are dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public...	Used for astrophysics, solar physics, oceanography, biophysics, and simulation. 2D plotting via PGPLOT, PLPlot bindings; 3D via GL.
R R (programming language) R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language is widely used among statisticians for developing statistical software, and R is widely used for statistical software development and data analysis....	R Foundation	1997	1997	2.12.2 / February 25, 2011	GPL	Primarily for statistics, but there are many interfaces to open-source numerical software
SAGE SAGE (Computer Algebra System) Sage is mathematical software with features covering many aspects of mathematics, including algebra, combinatorics, numerical mathematics, number theory, and calculus...	William Stein William A. Stein William Arthur Stein is a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington.He is best known as the lead developer of Sage. He is known as a major proponent of open-source scientific software...		2005	4.7 / May 2011	GPL	Programmable, includes computer algebra, 2D+3D plotting. Interfaces to lots of open-source software. Web based interface HTTP or HTTPS Https Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure is a combination of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol with SSL/TLS protocol to provide encrypted communication and secure identification of a network web server...
S-Lang	John E. Davis		1992	2.2.0 / 2009	GPL, Artistic License Artistic License The Artistic License refers most commonly to the original Artistic License , a software license used for certain free and open source software packages, most notably the standard Perl implementation and most CPAN modules, which are dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public... (1.x only)	Available as a standalone (slsh) and embedded interpreter (jed JED (text editor) JED is a text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library. It is highly cross-platform compatible; JED runs on Windows and all flavors on Linux and Unix. Older versions are available for DOS. It is also very lightweight , which makes it an ideal editor for older systems, embedded systems,... , slrn Slrn slrn is an open source text-based news client. It was originally developed for Unix-like operating systems, but is now available for many other operating systems, including Microsoft Windows.... , ...)
Scilab Scilab Scilab is an open source, cross-platform numerical computational package and a high-level, numerically oriented programming language. Itcan be used for signal processing, statistical analysis, image enhancement, fluid dynamics simulations, numerical optimization, and modeling and simulation of...	Scilab Consortium / Digiteo Was:INRIA	1990	1994	5.3.2 / 12 May, 2011	CeCILL CeCILL CeCILL is a free software license adapted to both international and French legal matters, in the spirit of and retaining compatibility with the GNU General Public License.... license	Open source. Language similar to MATLAB.
SimplexNumerica	Dipl.-Phys.-Ing. Ralf Wirtz		1986	9.0 / 2011	Proprietary	interactive graphics, 2D/3D render engine, used for science and engineering, Excel im-/export.
Sysquake Sysquake Sysquake is a numerical computing environment based on a programming language mostly compatible with MATLAB. It offers facilities for interactive graphics which give insights into the problems being analyzed...	Calerga		1998	4.1 / 2008	Proprietary	interactive graphics
VisSim VisSim VisSim is a visual block diagram language for simulation of dynamical systems and model based design of embedded systems. It is developed by Visual Solutions of Westford, Massachusetts....	Visual Solutions		1989	7.0a / 2008	Proprietary	Visual Language Visual programming language In computing, a visual programming language is any programming language that lets users create programs by manipulating program elements graphically rather than by specifying them textually. A VPL allows programming with visual expressions, spatial arrangements of text and graphic symbols, used... for simulation and Model Based Design Model based design Model-Based Design is a mathematical and visual method of addressing problems associated with designing complex control, signal processing and communication systems. It is used in many motion control, industrial equipment, aerospace, and automotive applications... . Used in business, science and engineering. Performs complex scalar or matrix based ODE solving with parametric optimization. Has 2D and 3D plotting, 3D animation, and state transition built in.

Operating system support

The operating system

Operating system

An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...

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Emulator

In computing, an emulator is hardware or software or both that duplicates the functions of a first computer system in a different second computer system, so that the behavior of the second system closely resembles the behavior of the first system...

	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...	Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...	Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...	BSD Berkeley Software Distribution Berkeley Software Distribution is a Unix operating system derivative developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1977 to 1995...	Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...	DOS DOS DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related...
ADMB ADMB ADMB or AD Model Builder is a free and open source software suite for non-linear statistical modeling. It was created by David Fournier and now being developed by the ADMB Project, a creation of the non-profit ADMB Foundation...
DADiSP DADiSP DADiSP is a computer program developed by DSP Development Corporation which allows one to display and manipulate data series, matrices and images in an environment similar to a spreadsheet....
Euler Math Toolbox
FreeMat FreeMat FreeMat is a free open source numerical computing environment and programming language, similar to MATLAB and GNU Octave. In addition to supporting many MATLAB functions and some IDL functionality, it features a codeless interface to external C, C++, and Fortran code, further parallel distributed...
GAUSS GAUSS (software) GAUSS is a matrix programming language for mathematics and statistics, developed and marketed by Aptech Systems. Its primary purpose is the solution of numerical problems in statistics, econometrics, time-series, optimization and 2D- and 3D-visualization...
IGOR Pro IGOR Pro IGOR Pro is a scientific data analysis software, numerical computing environment and programming language that runs on Windows or Mac operating systems. It is developed by WaveMetrics Inc., and was originally aimed at time series analysis, but has since then evolved and covers other applications...
jBEAM
LabVIEW LabVIEW LabVIEW is a system design platform and development environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments. LabVIEW provides engineers and scientists with the tools needed to create and deploy measurement and control systems.The graphical language is named "G"...
Maple Maple (software) Maple is a general-purpose commercial computer algebra system. It was first developed in 1980 by the Symbolic Computation Group at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada....
Mathematica Mathematica Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing...
MATLAB MATLAB MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and fourth-generation programming language. Developed by MathWorks, MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages,...
GNU Data Language GNU data language The GNU Data Language is a free, compatible alternative to IDL .. Version 0.9.1, released in March 2011, has full syntax compatibility with IDL 7.1 and supports some IDL 8.0 language elements as well. GDL is in beta stage of development...
GNU Octave GNU Octave GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command-line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with MATLAB...						(using HX-Extender)
Origin Origin (software) Origin is a proprietary computer program for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis. It is produced by OriginLab Corporation, and runs on Microsoft Windows...
Perl Data Language Perl Data Language PDL is a set of array programming extensions to the Perl programming language.PDL is an extension to Perl v5, intended for scientific and other data intensive programming tasks...
R R (programming language) R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language is widely used among statisticians for developing statistical software, and R is widely used for statistical software development and data analysis....						?
SAGE SAGE (Computer Algebra System) Sage is mathematical software with features covering many aspects of mathematics, including algebra, combinatorics, numerical mathematics, number theory, and calculus...
S-Lang
Scilab Scilab Scilab is an open source, cross-platform numerical computational package and a high-level, numerically oriented programming language. Itcan be used for signal processing, statistical analysis, image enhancement, fluid dynamics simulations, numerical optimization, and modeling and simulation of...
SimplexNumerica
Sysquake Sysquake Sysquake is a numerical computing environment based on a programming language mostly compatible with MATLAB. It offers facilities for interactive graphics which give insights into the problems being analyzed...
The Unscrambler The Unscrambler The Unscrambler is a commercial software product for multivariate data analysis, used primarily for calibration in the application of near infrared spectroscopy and development of predictive models for use in real-time spectroscopic analysis of materials. The software was originally developed in...
VisSim VisSim VisSim is a visual block diagram language for simulation of dynamical systems and model based design of embedded systems. It is developed by Visual Solutions of Westford, Massachusetts....

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Maple Maple (software) Maple is a general-purpose commercial computer algebra system. It was first developed in 1980 by the Symbolic Computation Group at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada....	?			?	?	?

C (programming language)

C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....

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Fortran

Fortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing...

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MATLAB

MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and fourth-generation programming language. Developed by MathWorks, MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages,...

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Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

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Mathematica

Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing...

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.NET

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C++

C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...

, FORTRAN

Fortran

Fortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing...

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CUDA

CUDA or Compute Unified Device Architecture is a parallel computing architecture developed by Nvidia. CUDA is the computing engine in Nvidia graphics processing units that is accessible to software developers through variants of industry standard programming languages...

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OpenCL

OpenCL is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of CPUs, GPUs, and other processors. OpenCL includes a language for writing kernels , plus APIs that are used to define and then control the platforms...

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Excel

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LabVIEW

LabVIEW is a system design platform and development environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments. LabVIEW provides engineers and scientists with the tools needed to create and deploy measurement and control systems.The graphical language is named "G"...

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Haskell (programming language)

Haskell is a standardized, general-purpose purely functional programming language, with non-strict semantics and strong static typing. It is named after logician Haskell Curry. In Haskell, "a function is a first-class citizen" of the programming language. As a functional programming language, the...

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AppleScript

AppleScript is a scripting language created by Apple Inc. and built into Macintosh operating systems since System 7. The term "AppleScript" may refer to the scripting system itself, or to particular scripts that are written in the AppleScript language....

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Visual Basic

Visual Basic is the third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment from Microsoft for its COM programming model...

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Python (programming language)

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

Clojure

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Fortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing...

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ActiveX is a framework for defining reusable software components in a programming language-independent way. Software applications can then be composed from one or more of these components in order to provide their functionality....

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Mathematica

Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing...

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Tcl

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General

	Creator	Language	First public release	Latest stable version	License	Notes
ALGLIB ALGLIB ALGLIB is a cross-platform open source numerical analysis and data processing library. It is written in specially designed pseudocode which is automatically translated into several target programming languages . ALGLIB is relatively young project - active development started only in 2008, while...	Sergey Bochkanov	C++, C#, FreePascal, VBA	2006	2.6.0 / 06.2010	GPL	General purpose numerical analysis library. Uses automatic code generation to support several programming languages.
GNU Scientific Library GNU Scientific Library In computing, the GNU Scientific Library is a software library written in the C programming language for numerical calculations in applied mathematics and science...	GNU Project	C	1996	1.14 / 03.2010	GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	General purpose numerical analysis library. Targets GNU/Linux, can be built on almost any *nix OS with Ansi C compiler.
ILNumerics.Net ILNumerics.Net ILNumerics is an mathematical class library for .NET software developers. It simplifies the implementation of all kinds of numerical algorithms. ILNumerics was designed for helping developers to create distribution-ready applications. Interfaces of existing algebra systems were often found to be...	H. Kutschbach	C#	2007	1.3.14 / 08.2008	LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License...	aims .Net/mono, 2D/3D plottings (beta)
IMSL Numerical Libraries IMSL Numerical Libraries IMSL is a commercial collection of software libraries of numerical analysis functionality that are implemented in the computer programming languages of C, Java, C#.NET, and Fortran...	Rogue Wave Software	C, Java, C#, Fortran, Python	1970	many components	Proprietary	General purpose numerical analysis library.
JHepWork JHepWork jHepWork is an interactive framework for scientific computation, data analysis and data visualization designed for scientists, engineers and students...	jwork.org (S.Chekanov)	100% Java	2005	2011	Free for non-commercial use	General numerical calcualtions, statistics and interactive 2D/3D graphics for data and function presentation
NAG Numerical Libraries NAG Numerical Libraries NAG Numerical Libraries is a software product sold by The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd . The product is a software library of numerical analysis routines. It comprises a collection of 1500 mathematical and statistical algorithms. Areas covered include linear algebra, optimization, quadrature,...	The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd	C, Fortran	1970s	many components	Proprietary	General purpose numerical analysis library.
NMath NMath NMath is a numerical package for the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is developed by CenterSpace Software. Version 1.0 was released in March, 2003 as NMath Core...	CenterSpace Software CenterSpace Software CenterSpace Software, LLC. is a commercial software development company with headquarters in Corvallis, Oregon, USA, that produces numerical and statistical class libraries for the .NET Framework...	C#	2003	5.0 / February 2011	Proprietary	Math and statistical libraries for the .NET Framework .NET Framework The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...
SciPy SciPy SciPy is an open source library of algorithms and mathematical tools for the Python programming language.SciPy contains modules for optimization, linear algebra, integration, interpolation, special functions, FFT, signal and image processing, ODE solvers and other tasks common in science and...	Enthought Enthought Enthought, Inc. is a software company based in Austin, Texas, USA that develops scientific computing tools using primarily the Python programming language...	Python	1995	0.9.0 / 2011-02-27	BSD BSD licenses BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses. The original license was used for the Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix-like operating system after which it is named....	Adds numerical programming capabilities to the Python programming language Python (programming language) Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive... . Related to Numpy, and therefore connected to the previous Numeric and Numarray packages for Python

Operating system support

The operating system

Operating system

s the software can run on natively (without emulation

Emulator

	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...	Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...	Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...	BSD Berkeley Software Distribution Berkeley Software Distribution is a Unix operating system derivative developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1977 to 1995...	Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...	DOS DOS DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related...
ALGLIB ALGLIB ALGLIB is a cross-platform open source numerical analysis and data processing library. It is written in specially designed pseudocode which is automatically translated into several target programming languages . ALGLIB is relatively young project - active development started only in 2008, while...
GNU Scientific Library GNU Scientific Library In computing, the GNU Scientific Library is a software library written in the C programming language for numerical calculations in applied mathematics and science...
ILNumerics.Net ILNumerics.Net ILNumerics is an mathematical class library for .NET software developers. It simplifies the implementation of all kinds of numerical algorithms. ILNumerics was designed for helping developers to create distribution-ready applications. Interfaces of existing algebra systems were often found to be...
JHepWork JHepWork jHepWork is an interactive framework for scientific computation, data analysis and data visualization designed for scientists, engineers and students...
IMSL Numerical Libraries IMSL Numerical Libraries IMSL is a commercial collection of software libraries of numerical analysis functionality that are implemented in the computer programming languages of C, Java, C#.NET, and Fortran...
NAG Numerical Libraries NAG Numerical Libraries NAG Numerical Libraries is a software product sold by The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd . The product is a software library of numerical analysis routines. It comprises a collection of 1500 mathematical and statistical algorithms. Areas covered include linear algebra, optimization, quadrature,...
NMath NMath NMath is a numerical package for the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is developed by CenterSpace Software. Version 1.0 was released in March, 2003 as NMath Core...
SciPy SciPy SciPy is an open source library of algorithms and mathematical tools for the Python programming language.SciPy contains modules for optimization, linear algebra, integration, interpolation, special functions, FFT, signal and image processing, ODE solvers and other tasks common in science and... (Python packages)

External links

Comparison of mathematical programs for data analysis Stefan Steinhaus, ScientificWeb.com

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