Re: Free math' app' threatens commercial math' app's

On Dec 8, 2:17 pm, Philo D <do...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article
<noneof-AC775C.02292008122...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mark

Conrad <non...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For Mac math' buffs, a new FREE open-source math' app'
called SAGE will be available for free shortly, which
claims to beat expensive commercial software
like Mathematica which costs $2,500

I think Maple & Mathematica are not in danger yet.
SAGE may compete with XCAS, and it is not clear which would win...

As an aside, I note that Open Office hasn't put Microsoft Word out of
business, yet...



Some team of math' experts at University of Washington are
developing the app'

Supposedly SAGE has already won awards in open competition at
some world-wide math' conference.

That was not a "math" conference, but a competition for "free software".

Here is what an article in F"AQ: Scientific Computing and Numerical
Analysis" said about Sage. This article gives an altogether different
spin to Sage's capability than the link in Mark Conrad's post. A link
to the FAQ: Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis can be found
in the sci . math . num-analysis news group.

Howard

SAGE

SAGE is a computer algebra plus mathematical software system. It
includes interfaces to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB, and MuPAD,
and the free programs Axiom, GAP, GP/PARI, Macaulay2, Maxima, Octave,
and Singular.

SAGE can be used from a web browser. It connects either
to a program running on your computer, or to a server elsewhere.

The SAGE notebook can be used to create graphics, typeset
mathematical expressions, and to start up and
interrupt multiple calculations. The notebook can be used
to create and publish collaborative worksheets.

SAGE is Python based. It provides a standard, uniform Python
programming
interface to all the underlying systems.
.

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