Cantor (KDE Frontend to Mathematical Software)

Cantor (KDE Frontend to Mathematical Software) is a free software mathematics application developed by the KDE Education Project. The program is mostly used scientific analysis and statistics, as well as other mathematical operations. The program is part of the kdeedu package which stands for KDE Education Project.

Cantor (KDE Frontend to Mathematical Software) is a GUI that enables users to perform mathematical operations utilizing back ends. GUI stands for graphical user interace. Supported back ends include Maxima, Sage, R, KAlgebra, Python, GNU Octave, and Scilab. The Cantor (KDE Frontend to Mathematical Software) works by receiving the mathematical operation to be computed, and forwards the same to one of its many back ends. These back ends perform the operation and provide a solution, which it then forwards to the front end, in this case, Cantor. Cantor (KDE Frontend to Mathematical Software) then displays the solution for the benefit of its users.

Cantor (KDE Frontend to Mathematical Software) features a Project page which displays any worksheet, graphs, or solutions. It features a Worksheet view that displays the expressions, as well as plotted results. The program also features LaTeX support enabling mathematical formula typesetting. The program likewise offers backend-aware syntax highlighting. Cantor (KDE Frontend to Mathematical Software) comes with the GetHotNewStuff add-on service. This feature enable users to upload or download example worksheets for other users.