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Mathics is a general-purpose computer algebra system (CAS). It is meant to be a free, open-source alternative to Mathematica.

Here is are the main (mostly) wiki pages you might want to look at first:

• Installing-and-Running: How to install and run Mathics.
• Getting-the-bleeding-edge: How to get the very latest version of Mathics installed.
• latest PDF doc. This comes form the Mathics.org site.
• Contributing-&-Developing: How you can help improve this package.

Implementation & Internal Documentation

• Contributing-&-Developing: How you can help improve this package.
• Documentation-and-tests: Information on how the documentation and testing system works and how to build the PDF documentation.
• Documentation-markup: How to write tests and documentation examples.
• Releasing: The dance we go through to get this to you.
• Graphics-3D: How Graphics 3D works.

Guides

• Running-Mathics-on-your-server: How to set up a public Mathics server.