MathCad is a computer algebra system somewhat similar to Mathematica or Maple, and oriented towards ease of use and applications such as plotting. It is distributed by Mathsoft. MathCad has a "notebook" frontend interface similar to Scientific Notebook, and is easy and intuitive to use, making use of point-and-click layouts and keystrokes for basic tasks, such as plotting functions or data sets.

Some of Mathcad's mathematical capabilities are based on a subset (MKM aka Mathsoft Kernel Maple) of the Maple computer algebra system.

It is oriented around a worksheet, in which equations and expressions are displayed graphically, as opposed to plain text.

Among the capabilities of MathCad are:

• Solving differential equations, with several possible numerical methods
• Graphing functions in two or three Dimensions
• The use of the Greek alphabet (upper and lower case) in both text and equations
• Symbolic calculations
• Vector and matrix operations
• Symbolically solving systems of equations
• Curve Fitting
• Implementing subprograms
• Finding roots of polynomials and functions
• Statistical functions and probability distributions
• Finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors
• Calculations in which units are bound to quantities

Despite this program is mostly oriented to the non-programming users, it is also used in more complex projects to visualise results of the mathematical modelling using distributed computing and traditional programming languages.

External links

• MathCad website
• PTC website

Computer algebra systems | Windows software

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