Bastian, Maybe https://www.openhub.net/ has both projects. It has sympy and a bunch of stats.
Feel free to improve the wiki page on the sympy repository as it will likely help others too. Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Bastian Weber <[email protected] > wrote: > 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. > -- 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/CAP7f1Ah-%2BjNtNGoAhsB_wBDkr5sAT06Qc7UnOQvvcMH4VCNAgw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
