Various software packages are utilized for the educational process at the School of Mathematics. These include either proprietary software centrally purchased by the University or the School, or Open Source software distributed for free from it’s developers. The software is legitimately installed to all workstations of the Laboratory. Users who find any malfunction of the software shall get in touch with the administration team of the Laboratory, reporting the title/version of the software and the name of the computer.
Bellow we include multiple links for educational and useful software, which is already installed at our laboratory workstations and our students can download for personal use to their own computers, according to the license & terms of use of each software package. The same and other useful software is distributed also by the IT Center of AUTh.
Programming Languages
python ( ANACONDA distribution for Data Science)
Application Packages
R Studio (an integrated development environment (IDE) for R)
Mathematica (distributed by IT Auth)
Matlab (distributed by IT Auth) , GNU Octave and Scilab (widely used in education institutions for teaching mathematics, engineering and automatic control).
ΙΒΜ SPSS Statistics (distributed by IT Auth) and GNU PSPP
GeoGebra (dynamic mathematics software that brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics and calculus)
The Geometers' SKETCHPAD V4 (exploratory learning software for mathematics (in Greek), distributed through the Ministry of Education with special licensing for educational organizations)
Cabri Geometry II plus (exploratory learning software for geometry (in Greek), distributed through the Ministry of Education with special licensing for educational organizations)
Protégé (open source ontology editor)
Microfit (econometric software)
“DB Browser for SQLite” (Database Browser)
Git, a distributed version-control system
Useful Software
Mozilla Firefox for Internet browsing
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) for images manipulation
Adobe Reader XI for access to .pdf documents
VLC media player for multimedia
Libre Office for text documents, presentations and spreadsheets
MS Office for text documents, presentations and spreadsheets
TeX, LaTeX and TeXstudio for the edit, creation and manipulation of .tex based documents
MagicDisk (Freeware) to mount a CD/DVD image on a virtual drive (obsolete on computers running MS Windows10)
pGina open source software for Windows authentication
Bitser free archive and backup software for Windows