Sorry if this post might be slightly offtopic, Situation:
A (generalized) colleague is working on a book. Intended audience are graduate students of electrical engineering. The book treats concepts like vector fields, differential forms, (linear and nonlinear) coordinate transforms, null spaces, etc. The author wants to provide some "illustrations" of the treated concepts by means of short computer-algebra snippets. Currently he uses maxima. >From my point of view, the combination of IPython notebook and sympy would be a better choice. So I am collecting arguments, which should be covered by reliable information, to finally convince him (in the best case). Status: Until now I only found [1] https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/SymPy-vs.-Maxima which seems to be quite neutral, i.e., it does not reflect my personal experience that the usage of sympy is much more intuitive. Questions: 1. Are there any documents available, comparing sympy and maxima in terms of: a) features ([1] does this on a quite abstract level) b) development activity c) community size d) documentation coverage e) test coverage f) subjective "usability experience" (maybe internal consistency, module compatibility) 2. What would be other arguments for/against Sympy (together with IPNotebook and Python)? I started to collect my thoughts here: [2] https://github.com/basweber/sympy/wiki/sympy_vs_maxima Best regards, Bastian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" 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/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/54B461BA.9050205%40gmx-topmail.de. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
