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Owen Densmore

SageMath; 2008/480a/schedule - William Stein's Wiki

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Sage ( http://sagemath.org/ ) is getting more mature by the minute. I
recently started playing with the latest, leading me to poke around
for more information.

William Stein, the creator/leader of Sage, has written a number theory
book using Sage, and has a class he teaches using Sage .. including
videos and other materials like sage workbooks:
http://wiki.wstein.org/2008/480a/schedule
The rest of the site has similarly interesting materials.

-- Owen

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Robert Holmes

Re: SageMath; 2008/480a/schedule - William Stein's Wiki

Must admit I've never been able to get along with Sage. I suspect that the world is divided into those who like Matlab vs those who like Mathematica...

-- R

P.S. Just been playing with Octave and PSPP as the open-source near-equivalents to Matlab and SPSS. Both surprisingly featureful!

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

Sage ( http://sagemath.org/ ) is getting more mature by the minute. I recently started playing with the latest, leading me to poke around for more information.

William Stein, the creator/leader of Sage, has written a number theory book using Sage, and has a class he teaches using Sage .. including videos and other materials like sage workbooks:
http://wiki.wstein.org/2008/480a/schedule
The rest of the site has similarly interesting materials.

-- Owen

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Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

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Owen Densmore

Re: SageMath; 2008/480a/schedule - William Stein's Wiki

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On Dec 2, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Robert Holmes wrote:

Must admit I've never been able to get along with Sage. I suspect that the world is divided into those who like Matlab vs those who like Mathematica...

Well, for me the huge advantage is that it bundles into a huge distribution all of the python/cython/<name your open source math here> distributions. I've had lots of headaches installing python libraries, and sage solves this nicely.

A second advantage is that it is slowly but surely including all the other open source systems under one integrated system .. and using a single language for all of them (python). I get Octave, R, GnuPlot, etc "languages" mixed up and its nice to have python mapped onto them all. It even maps in mathematica for those who'd like a python interface to it.

http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2007/12/sage-mathematica-and-hiking-to-vultee.html

Which would you say Sage is like? Matlab or Mathematica?

I've mainly used the terminal with the sage/python interactive sessions. Great for a calculator on steroids. But I do use the workbook interface on the web for graphics and sharing with friends.

BTW: This is a useful post on William Stein's old blog:

http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-isnt-sage-just-part-of-octave.html

P.S. Just been playing with Octave and PSPP as the open-source near-equivalents to Matlab and SPSS. Both surprisingly featureful!

Octave is still being worked on, I'm pleased to see. Apparently Mathlab for the rest of us. I.e. those of us not needing the add-ons. And naturally Sage has an interface to Octave. It does not appear to have PSPP, but it does have R.

-- Owen