Need Help Finding or a Good Suggestion for an Advanced Computer Math Program

[hiccupleftovers]

I've been scouring the net and asking professors for a long time trying to find a program that is similar in scope to Microsoft's Word in terms of ease of use, features, etc. I need it to be able to do up through Calc2 at the very least. I need it to be able to create graphs, do limits, derivatives, etc. So far the only thing I've found that can do the job, but is extremely cumbersome is miktex - not to mention old.

[Scobie]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a1/Dk_jr_math_box.jpg/200px-Dk_jr_math_box.jpg

I'm pretty sure this does all that stuff.

[hiccupleftovers]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a1/Dk_jr_math_box.jpg/200px-Dk_jr_math_box.jpg

I'm pretty sure this does all that stuff.

Ahh my first reply and oh how witty you make yourself. Thank you for offering yourself to my ignore list.

[Z-Saber]

According to your signature, you just gained some experience.

[hiccupleftovers]

According to your signature, you just gained some experience.

All the time....all the time. And don't forget I'm the worst one here.

[jmcc]

I've been scouring the net and asking professors for a long time trying to find a program that is similar in scope to Microsoft's Word in terms of ease of use, features, etc. I need it to be able to do up through Calc2 at the very least. I need it to be able to create graphs, do limits, derivatives, etc. So far the only thing I've found that can do the job, but is extremely cumbersome is miktex - not to mention old.Give Scientific Notebook a look.

edit: though I actually recommend Maple.

[xmrblondex]

look up
MATLAB
it's great
I use it at UCSD all the time, and kow of some tutorials you could use

[hiccupleftovers]

Give Scientific Notebook a look.

edit: though I actually recommend Maple.

Sure. I knew jmcc would know. You or (can't remember name, shit) the guy that's been staying vitriolic seem to be pretty up there in math. Thanks guys.

Are these two programs free? Still, even if they aren't I won't mind to buy them.

[umcthomas]

At the U of MO (at least back when I was there) the "easy for non majors" calculus courses used Maple. The "hard core" calculus courses used Mathmatica. At the time (mid 90's) Mathmatica was the more powerful of the two, but harder to learn to use. I have no idea which one would be better today. It was fun to have access to the Silicon Graphics computer labs because you needed to use Mathmatica.

[xmrblondex]

Matlab is 100 dollars for a student license. If you are at a university, you might want to save a few bucks and see if it is at the library computers. If not, I still recommend it.