Re:SymPy Gamma: an open-source, Python-based alternative to ...
by mh_yam on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @04:07PM
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I used the Wolfram Alpha iPad app in real-time during mathematics / statistics lectures to check the notes on the blackboard and to try out alternatives. Very useful in the classroom.
Re:SymPy Gamma: an open-source, Python-based alternative to ...
by runarberg on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @06:21PM
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I see that some professors (not in my school though) publish they’re lecture notes as IPython notebooks. That is super clever and allows interactivity with the lecture material. I don’t know the mobile/tablet support of IPython notebook however.
Not that I'm against the progression of these tools, far from it, I just think that wolfram alpha does a better job at math homework type problems for most people most of the time. If you have more complicated modeling/statistical/etc. work, then bring out the bigger guns.