About
wxMaxima is a cross platform GUI for the computer algebra system Maxima based on wxWidgets.
wxMaxima features include:
- 2D formatted math display: wxMaxima implements its own math display engine to nicely display maxima output.
- Menu system: most Maxima commands are available through menus. Most used functions are also available through a button panel below the document.
- Dialogs: commands which require more that one argument can be entered through dialogs so that there is no need to remember the exact syntax.
- Create documents: text can be mixed with math calculations to create documents. Documents can be saved and edited again later.
- Animations: version 0.7.4 adds support for simple animations.
wxMaxima is released under the GPL2 licence.
See screenshots. There are also some older screenshots here.
Download
The latest version of wxMaxima is 0.8.2 (see Changes). You will need to install Maxima separately from Maxima webpage (if you install/compile only wxMaxima).
- Source code: wxMaxima-0.8.2.tar.gz.
- Mac OS X: NEW! wxMaxima-0.8.2-Maxima-5.18.1.dmg Includes everything you need to use Maxima on Mac OS X: wxMaxima.app, Maxima.app, Gnuplot.app and Aquaterm.pkg. Intel only. Please report if the package works or doesn't work on the forum! See Maxima and wxMaxima on Mac OS X if you want to compile Maxima and wxMaxima from source code.
- Windows: download maxima 5.18.1 which includes wxMaxima 0.8.2.
- All files released so far are available from wxMaxima project page.
User contributed packages.
Help
wxMaxima tutorials on various topics.
Public forum is available for questions and discussion about wxMaxima. Be sure to read the tutorials first, before asking questions. Questions related to Maxima should be posted to Maxima mailing list.
There is a known problem in version 0.7.0. If wxMaxima works the first time you start it but later it does not work anymore, look here for a possible workaround.
