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SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system (sagemath.org)
59 points by memorable on May 9, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



From ~3 minutes of browsing the site, it's not clear to me exactly what the project is. It seems like 'just' a distribution of python with lots of the numpy/scipy/sympy ecosystem bundled? There's something about the website that's making it hard for me to digest it. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it feels very dense.

I will say that the multiedge graph plot[0] does seem useful. Not useful enough for me personally to go through the trouble of adopting it, but it doesn't seem like I'm their target audience. It seems like I could probably hunt down which packages they used to make the plot, and adopt those.

[0] https://www.sagemath.org/tour-graphics.html


It is a competitor of mathematica. It is a front end of numerical libraries, but also a wrapper of external mathematical libraries, such as gap, pari etc. It can solve differential equations, do number theory, group theory, data analysis, etc.


https://lwn.net/Articles/710537/ introduces Sage and other symbolic mathematics programs for Linux.


It bundles much more. Stuff like maxima or bindings to Mathematica (if installed).

I always found it too heavy for serious work, but some things came out of it, like cython.


And JSage is like Sage, but for WebAssembly and JavaScript: https://github.com/sagemathinc/JSage




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