Cantor (mathematics software)
Cantor is an application, aimed at providing a nice worksheet view to other Free Software Math packages.
Introduction
Cantor is an application to allow users to use their favorite mathematical applications from within an elegant KDE-integrated Worksheet Interface. It provides dialogs to assist with common tasks and allows users to share worksheets with others.Cantor ships with KDE Education project.[1]
Cantor features
- Intuitive worksheet view for evaluating expressions.
- Results of graph plotting shown inside the worksheet.
- Easy plugin-based structure to allow different backends to be added.
- GetHotNewStuff integration to allow example worksheets to be downloaded (or uploaded.)
- Mathematical formula typesetting using LaTeX.
- Backend-aware syntax highlighting.
- Plugin-based assistant dialogs to help with common tasks, such as integrating a function, or entering a matrix.
The Cantor backends
Cantor offers several choices for the backends to use with it. The choice to make depends on what user want to achieve. Currently the following backends are available:
Sage
Sage (mathematics software) is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages, within a common Python-based interface.
Maxima
Maxima (software) is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numeric expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, 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.
R
R (programming language)is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, similar to the S language and environment. It provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques,and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides an open-source route to this.
KAlgebra
KAlgebra is a MathML-based graph calculator, that ships with KDE Education Project.