Installing the whole set of scientific packages

["Michael Gilbert" <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com>]

hello,

one of my professors just switched to Debian, and he was complaining
that there was no easy way to install all of the scientific packages
(compared to Fedora where he could just select the check mark next to
"science" in their package manager gui and get everything he needed).
instead he has to manually apt-get everything he needs with debian.
is there any way to easily install all the scientific apps/libraries?

thanks for any thoughts.  have a good day.

mike