Yet another language for numerical computation. Developed at Boeing, claims to be much faster than Octave, RLab and "old" Matlab. Can read Matlab binary files.
Contains references to B. Smiths ZERPOL and Adam's stopping criterion. SMITH, B.T. ZERPOL, a zero finding algorithm for polynomials using Laguerre's method. Proc. 1967 Army Numerical Analysis Conference, Madison, Wis., May 1967 (Rep. 67-3, US Army Res. O
surf is a tool to visualize some real algebraic geometry: plane algebraic curves, algebraic surfaces and hyperplane sections of surfaces. surf is script driven and has (optionally) a nifty GUI using the Gtk widget set.
There are even more Matlab like programs than I knew. Ironically, a discussion on comp.lang.lisp cited RMS as (I paraphrase) "one advantage of free software is less re-invention of the wheel". Sadly, this does not appear to have happened.
ASCIIMathML allows to write formula in a (La)TeX-like format and have it rendered decently on modern browsers (some math fonts are needed). The blog is quite interesting as well.