[Chicago] Has anyone used Maple?

[Rob Kapteyn]

I'm not sure how a python list can discuss Maple, Mathematica and "serious
computer algebra" and NOT mention Sage:

http://www.sagemath.org

Sage is awesome, it has been around for years, and it deserves a lot more
visibility.

It is completely open source, the top layer glue is all Python and
matplotlib  (I saw C and even fortran when I built it from source).

I don't do a lot of heavy math -- but when I do -- Sage does everything
that I would do with Mathematica.  The big plus is -- it's FREE -- and an
easy way to impress clients who would never put out for a Mathematica
license.

The Sage wiki is full of awesome examples.

Here is one I quickly grabbed that shows python code, algebra, and
matplotlib.
http://wiki.sagemath.org/interact/algebra
It makes nice workbooks for saving your work and coming back to it later.

Oh well . . .
Anyone else use Sage ?

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:22 PM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:

> Yes, I did see that you'd used SymPy. I followed up to mention that SymPy
> is a Google Summer of Code project. Since you are a student, you can apply
> to a GSoC project. If you are accepted as a GSoC student for SymPy you
> could make a proposal to improve it if that interests you.
>
> I want to make sure people in college know about GSoC.
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sheila,
>>
>> I've used Sympy.  It is impressive, but still can't compete with Maple
>> and Mathematica when it comes to serious high-level computer algebra.
>> Matlab seems to be the software of choice with most engineers, although
>> I've found that when it comes to plotting Matplotlib can do pretty much
>> whatever Matlab can do.  But in the area of computer algebra I still have
>> to cast my vote with Maple and Mathematica, but especially Maple.  (Maple
>> is also Canadian software, and Canada is one of my favorite countries!  I
>> don't mind spending some money on top quality commercial software that
>> comes out of Canada.)
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:22 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> computer algebra power surpasses the power of Python's Sympy
>>>
>>>
>>> Speaking of which, SymPy is a Google Summer of Code project.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/numfocus/gsoc#organizations-confirmed-under-numfocus-umbrella
>>>
>>> Registration for GSoC starts tomorrow.
>>> https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015
>>>
>>>
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