Many programming languages include libraries to do more complicated math. You can do statistics, numerical analysis or handle big numbers. One topic many programming languages have difficulty with is ...

I have covered several different software packages for doing scientific computation in Linux Journal, but I haven't spent as much time describing available libraries and the kind of work that can be ...

This is in the flavour of MatLab. For those interested in using linear algebra in a symbolic setting, or for working with matrices over the integers or rational numbers (not float point numbers) ...