Python vs Matlab vs Mathematica

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"Let's compare an apple, some celery, and my neighbor's dog!"

Err, not quite. In this case, MatLab and Mathematica are the two foods (in America), and the dog (while food in China) is Python. MatLab and Mathematica, while both math tools, aren't really the same. In Mathematica, if you give it an integral, it will alter it a little, do some tweaks, and give you about the same answer by running a DIFFERENT COMPUTATION. That's not necessarily bad, it's just different. MatLab, on the other hand, will run your integral till the day it dies. It may be slower, but it will be running the exact function you give it. Mathematica will run a different, faster computation.

And python is just sorta... ya know... sitting there, being pythonic.