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
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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
>
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