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Is there any Calculator capable of calculating and displaying differential geometry (display curvature of spacetime)?

$$ds^2~=~g_{ab}dx^adx^b.$$

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This is a "shopping list" type question and those are discouraged, so I am going to close it. Please don't feel unduely discouraged by that. – dmckee♦ Dec 16 '12 at 19:43
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Personally I suspect that you need a symbolic computation package (like Mathmatica) rather than a simple tool that I would descibe as a "calculator". – dmckee♦ Dec 16 '12 at 19:45
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Welcome to PhysicsSE henry. I can't imagine what could even be meant by such a device - you input the metric coefficients and display what? some sort of plot representing the manifold? – twistor59 Dec 16 '12 at 19:46
@twistor59 display curvature of spacetime – henry Dec 16 '12 at 20:07
@dmckee i'm student and PC power consumption is too high+tax :D – henry Dec 16 '12 at 20:10

closed as not constructive by dmckee♦ Dec 16 '12 at 19:44

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