Mathics
A free, open-source alternative to Mathematica®
Components
Mathics is broken up into a number of pieces in order to facilitate using the parts of you desire. This also reduces the vast number of dependencies to those that you need and the footprint to run.
If you want to run everything, we have a docker container on dockerhub that has all of the components installed in the container.
If you want to install everything locally without docker and have all the the necessary OS components there is the PyPI Mathics omnibus package.
The pieces are described next with the components' OS and Python-package dependencies.
Mathics Core
The Mathics core is required for any work with Mathics.
If you are developing a non-interactive application written in Mathics, you may need no more than this.
mathicsscript
mathicsscript is a fancier command-line client for Mathics.
mathicsscript features:
- prompt_toolkit
or GNU Readline terminal interaction. This includes
- saving command history between sessions.
-
variable completion, even for symbol names like
\[Sigma] - limited ESC keyboard input; for example ESC+p+ESC is π
- Syntax highlighting using pygments.
- Automatic detection of light or dark terminal background color.
- Entering and displaying Unicode symbols such as used for Pi or Rule arrows
The mathicsscript is github respository is here.
Mathics-Django
There is a browser-based webserver that has MathML-formatted formatted output using three.js graphics. The github repository is here.
It features:
- Extensive online documentation and interactive documentation via Ajax
- Integrated graphics and MathML mathematics output via MathJax and Three.js.
- Notebook-like sessions
To use this, you will need Django installed and a browser with JavaScript enabled.
For more information on how to install Mathics see mathics-development-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing .
