Solved A Program For Mathematical Drawings and Formulas

[GioChavchanidze]

Hi,

Does anybody know a program, using which I will be able to make mathematical drawings and write formulas at the same time?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

 

[mjf]

It depends what you really want to do.
Word and Excel will do the basic presentation stuff and obviously Excel some basic scienific/engineering calculations.

You can have a look at:
Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 (free) - more for students
FreeMat - a free MathCad MatLab type program.

 

[HammerHead]

MathCad

Here is the best one I know of. I used an earlier version in an engineering job about 10 years ago.

 

[pparks1]

Open office has a math application. Unsure of quality, I don't really use it.

 

[karlsnooks]

Take a look at this, especially if you are a student.

Free Mathematics Add-in for Word (including the

Microsoft Math 4.0 is out - Microsoft Education Tech Upstate New York - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

 

[GioChavchanidze]

Thanks for the help very much. The thing I would like to do is to make some kind of a synopsis - draw figures and write some formulas and tips nearby. I am a student and these kinds of things help me greatly to study efficiently. But, so far, I have not found the right program. OpenOffice has Math section, but Drawing and Formula Categories are separated, so I make drawing without the ability to write formulas and vice versa. If there is a way to do both at the same time, I will be glad to hear.

As for the other programs:
MathCad- a professional engineering tool, not free and not suitable for the little job
Freemat - useless when we have Microsoft Mathematics.
Microsoft Mathematics - Looks good, but I could not find a way to draw there figures, maybe integrating with Word will do good.

And does anybody know about Google? Do they have something useful? I found Drawing in Google Docs, but I am unable to write anything.

Thank you for your help again!

 

[mjf]

Freemat - useless when we have Microsoft Mathematics.

Absolutely incorrect.
Microsoft Mathematics is very constrained. It has no scripting language, very limited and more geared to high school students. In principle you are supposed to be able to integrate it into Word but I found it buggy when I played with it.

Freemat is a powerful tool very similar to Mathcad MatLab. The scripts are syntactically the same. Freemat is relatively new and there are some other similar free programs that have been around a while longer but less compatible with Mathcad.
These tools are used by professional research engineers and scientists who wouldn't be using MS Mathematics as a substitute in a pink fit.

For a more mathematical focus there is Mathematica which is very expensive but has good student discounts. This would be more relevant to postgraduate students.

 

[GioChavchanidze]

No, I am saying it is useless for the basic things I would like to use it for(Considering M. Math.). MathCad is a professional tool and as I am a high-school student, I think Microsoft Mathematics is more appropriate for me.

I integrated the program with the Word as well, but did not find it helpful enough.

Nevertheless, will I be able to make drawing with MathCad and just write formulas?

Thanks in advance!

 

[mjf]

My appologies for my mental stuff up. I meant FreeMat is similar to MatLab (not Mathcad). For High school science/maths these may be an overkill.
Mathcad actually may be closer to what you want but it cost $$ and is an overkill when you have to pay for it..

Here is a link to what FreeMat will do. It runs fine under my Windows 7 x64.
FreeMat - Screenshots

This is MathCad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathcad

Edit:
Try this - I think it's very nice!
http://andrejv.github.com/wxmaxima/index.html

 

[GioChavchanidze]

Thanks for your great support. I looked through the Open Office Math Application as well as the Drawing App and fortunately, found a tool, using which I can insert Formulas into Drawing.

I appreciate your help!

 

[mjf]

Good to see you found a solution.

Many students would probably welcome another post from you describing in a bit more detail how you achieved your goal. They may do a search and find on your solution.

 

[GioChavchanidze]

No Problem, it is very simple:

1) Open Libreoffice (or Openoffice);
2) Select Text Document;
3) Select View/Toolbars and tick Drawing, the tools will appear at the bottom;
4) When you need to write some mathematical formulas, go to Insert/Object/Formula;

Now you have all the tools that are needed to Draw mathematical Figures and write formulas at the same time.