I came across Sage <http://sagemath.org/> the other day. It's trying to be an open source alternative to programs like Mathematica - using Python to glue together a collection of libraries.
It's been about 15 years since I last "played with" any mathematical software - in a previous life as a maths teacher - so I can't help further. On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:29 AM, silky <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone do anything of this type? > > I'm currently playing with MATLAB, and it's pretty fun. There are some > things that require a bit of getting used to, but it seems like it's > the most used and programmable. We've got Maple at Uni as well, and I > certainly prefer that for entering and manipulating equations. I > haven't done much with Mathematica, and those are the only programs > I'm familiar with. I'm under the impression that a component of the > scientific community uses Python; but I suspect that's only because > it's more accessible to them than other programming languages (and > probably due to some existing math libraries which make things > easier). > > Anyone have any thoughts on the matter? I believe MATLAB has some sort > of interaction with Amazon EC2 for running distributed items, which > seems very cool, but I'm yet to do anything anywhere near as > interesting as requiring that. > > Interested to hear if anyone has done any work/investigation in this area. > > -- > silky > > Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy > of being this signature. >
