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Re:Symbolic mathematics on Linux by williamstein on Friday January 06, 2017 @08:19AM (#13336014)
I've devoted my life to beating Mathematica for general symbolic math use. Don't tell me I can't. :-)
Re:Symbolic mathematics on Linux by Y_Y on Friday January 06, 2017 @08:47AM (#13336145)
I took a "Computer Algebra" class in undergrad which was taught entirely in Mathematica. It was a lot of work to convert everything (and the instructor would jokingly refer to me as "sage guy") but I got an awful lot out of using Sage instead. What keeps me from using sage nowadays is that I have a great jupyter workflow, and last time I used Sage it was just a worse version of that with better symbolic support.
Re:Symbolic mathematics on Linux by williamstein on Friday January 06, 2017 @10:25AM (#13336952)
Sage 7.4 now includes Jupyter as our main personal notebook UI.
Re:Symbolic mathematics on Linux by leephillips on Friday January 06, 2017 @11:24AM (#13337534)
Just went to sagemath.org to check it out. The link to the changelog is broken.

My editor was concerned about the two names, Sage and SageMath. As far as I could tell they're just synonyms, but do you have any guidance about which is to be used when?

Re:Symbolic mathematics on Linux by williamstein on Friday January 06, 2017 @03:06PM (#13339722)
Re:Symbolic mathematics on Linux by williamstein on Friday January 06, 2017 @03:35PM (#13339943)
The official name is SageMath, but you can call it Sage for short.
Re:Symbolic mathematics on Linux by leephillips on Friday January 06, 2017 @06:48PM (#13341398)
Tried it. Dumps core as soon as it's started. I'll look for a place to file a bug report, but thought I would mention it here. Ubuntu 15.10.
Re:Symbolic mathematics on Linux by pmiller2 on Friday January 06, 2017 @11:44AM (#13337748)
I hope you can, someday! Unfortunately, I think Python (as an interface) is one of the things holding Sage back. I very much appreciate having a lispy, mostly functional language when writing mathematics oriented code.

And then, there are the docs....

I appreciate what you do, but your competition has a big manpower advantage and a huge head start. Like I said, I truly do hope you can beat Mathematica at its own game someday, but it doesn't look like that day will be anytime soon.

Re:Symbolic mathematics on Linux by jordigh on Friday January 06, 2017 @11:53AM (#13337832)
Keep your chin up. I also don't like hearing the naysayers, and we can still prove them wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7483648

https://lobste.rs/s/eftgy8/switching_ubuntu_from_apple/comme...