[Tutor] Python and Symbolic Math for beginners

[Oscar Benjamin]

Can you use plain-text instead of html please? I've just had to
manually fix the quoting below.

On 17 June 2013 03:19, python at outofoptions.net <python at outofoptions.net> wrote:
> On 06/16/2013 10:14 PM, epi wrote:
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>> i guess you'll find this pretty interesting :
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>> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/edu.scios.ch/sympy/nb_sample_sympy.ipynb
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>> sympy latex rendering using the ipython notebook …
>
> Is this intertwined with Sage?  I know Sage is mostly python.
> http://www.sagemath.org/

The sage library includes sympy.

Essentially sympy is a Python library that can be used from within
Python code. It has a number of different interfaces. You can use it
programmatically (by importing it in a Python script), in an
interactive IPython console (isympy), or graphically via the browser
(sympy notebooks).

Sage brings together an array of different open-source mathematical
libraries in an attempt to create a full graphical environment for
mathematical work in the vein of Mathematica or Maple. In other words,
sage is more like an application where sympy is more like a library.


Oscar