Publisher's Synopsis
Some of the most powerful mathematical software is freely-downloadable and open-source. This book shows how to download it, install it, and explores the use of such software, covering
- Fourier series: the Heat and Wave equations
- linear and nonlinear differential equations
- orthogonal polynomials
- linear algebra, least-squares problems, and linear programming
- calculus of finite differences
- nonlinear algebra
- robotics
- problems of evasion and pursuit
- special functions
- Euler's Zeta function and the Riemann Hypothesis
