I believe one of the strongest features in MATLAB is their symbolic math toolbox, and it might be really handy if we could switch from MATLAB to open-source alternatives. In Python, this is SymPy.

Welcome to the SUGAR library for Matlab! SUGAR stands for Symbolic and User-friendly Geometric Algebra Routines. This package is accompanied by a paper (doi of the preprint version at arXiv: ...

Abstract: This paper demonstrates convenient use of freely available Polmat library for computations with transfer function models of multidimensional systems within Matlab environment. Polmat ...

Abstract: In this article, a synthesis methodology for analog circuit design is presented. This methodology utilizes symbolic math tools to systematically and exhaustively search for candidate analog ...

MATLAB is the most popular title in a suite of software provided by MathWorks. There are over a dozen MathWorks titles, including MATLAB, Simulink and companion software, available to the UB community ...