[Edu-sig] mathics - free alternative to Mathematica built on Python and SymPy

[michel paul]

Yeah, Sage is wonderful. The only problems I've experienced with it:

   - you can't rely on the public servers as frequently they will go down,
   and
   - having a bunch of students use them in a lab can create a bottleneck
   where everything is being seen as one IP. To use Sage effectively with a
   group you need to create your own Sage server.

I don't see Mathics replacing Sage, but it's fun seeing it come into play.
Students who might want to become familiar with Mathematica but don't have
access to it now have a great resource.

- Michel


On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:53 PM, David Chandler <
david at mathwithoutborders.com> wrote:

> I've just started poking around with Sage, and it looks pretty good to
> me.  I don't see any big advantages using Mathics instead.  For students
> I'm planning to just present them with a limited set of commands, for the
> topic at hand, and point them to Ted Kosan's very nice newby tutorial for
> more.
> --David Chandler
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:46 PM, michel paul <pythonic.math at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Yeah, it can be slow. As they do say on the site, not necessarily
>> industrial strength, but could be useful for educational purposes. However,
>> who knows how it might be able to improve over time?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Dan Peirce <peirce.dan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> It looks impressive, but at the moment on line it appears to be
>>> amazingly slow even for simple calculations.
>>>
>>> On 2/10/13, michel paul <pythonic.math at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > A student sent me this.:  http://www.mathics.org/
>>> >
>>> > It's Mathematica lite, for free. Though built with Python, Sage, and
>>> SymPy,
>>> > it accepts Mathematica syntax and provides much of its basic
>>> functionality.
>>> >
>>> > In an age where anyone can do genuinely high quality math in their
>>> browser
>>> > for free, that's what we should be showing the kids. I think things are
>>> > going to be heading more in that direction, not less.
>>> >
>>> > -- Michel
>>> >
>>> > ===================================
>>> > "What I cannot create, I do not understand."
>>> >
>>> > - Richard Feynman
>>> > ===================================
>>> > "Computer science is the new mathematics."
>>> >
>>> > - Dr. Christos Papadimitriou
>>> > ===================================
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ===================================
>> "What I cannot create, I do not understand."
>>
>> - Richard Feynman
>> ===================================
>> "Computer science is the new mathematics."
>>
>> - Dr. Christos Papadimitriou
>> ===================================
>>
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"What I cannot create, I do not understand."

- Richard Feynman
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"Computer science is the new mathematics."

- Dr. Christos Papadimitriou
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