Numerical and/or symbolic application software Homepages for some
well-known commercial programs for symbolic and numerical computation and
simulation are:
• http://www.mathworks.com (MATLAB & SIMULINK)
• http://www.wolfram.com (MATHEMATICA)
• http://www.maplesoft.com (MAPLE)
• http://www.mathcad.com (MATHCAD)
• https://www.simulationx.com (SIMULATIONX; formerly ITI-SIM)
Encyclopedia and databases MATHWORLD is Eric Weisstein's World of
Mathematics, a comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia intended
for students, teachers, and researchers, freely available at:
• http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
where there is also a physics encyclopedia:
• http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/
MATWEB holds a database of material properties for a wide range of polymers,
metals, fibers, and other engineering materials, freely available at:
• http://www.matweb.com/
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