On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:32 PM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Alexander Lindsay <[email protected]> wrote: >> My understanding is that sage offers interfaces to both sympy and Maxima. My >> interest is in symbolic solution of equations, often including ODEs and >> PDEs. Between sympy and Maxima, which is the richer package for symbolic >> computation? > > I think probably Maxima. >
In my experience, SymPy is vastly superior to Maxima in solving ODEs. >> Which is undergoing more active development? > > Definitely Sympy by far. No question at all. > >> I don't mean to offend developers of either package with my question. I >> really appreciate both groups contributions to the open source community. >> But I also want to know where I can best spend my time both in terms of use >> and potential development. I would like to get behind one package and stick >> with it for the long haul > > > Note that Sage also uses Ginac a lot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiNaC > > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-support" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > William (http://wstein.org) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
