new OSS math program under development

[meborc]

for those not informed, read this article http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/22768

i'm a happy bunny :D

homepage & download here - http://www.sagemath.org/

[engla]

SAGE will hopefully bring new cool things. I agree with some that the linked-to article is horrible though, so I'd recommend everyone to read up on this somewhere else, like on the homepage.

However, SAGE also works by using some already-available free software packages, like maxima (which I already use and is neat if you learn to use it); so SAGE is a big meta-application it seems to me. However it's great since 1. it's a focused effort to really bring a complete package to linux 2. hopefully the interaction between SAGE and the other used packages (like for example the smaller sympy project) boosts those smaller projects.

(sympy is a python package for symbolic algebra; it's far from complete, but I managed to write an iterative "newton's method for systems of equations" solver with it, and sympy is included in SAGE)

[newbie2]

any volunteer-translators?:mrgreen:

http://wiki.sagemath.org/i18n

[meborc]

SAGE will hopefully bring new cool things. I agree with some that the linked-to article is horrible though, so I'd recommend everyone to read up on this somewhere else, like on the homepage.

However, SAGE also works by using some already-available free software packages, like maxima (which I already use and is neat if you learn to use it); so SAGE is a big meta-application it seems to me. However it's great since 1. it's a focused effort to really bring a complete package to linux 2. hopefully the interaction between SAGE and the other used packages (like for example the smaller sympy project) boosts those smaller projects.

(sympy is a python package for symbolic algebra; it's far from complete, but I managed to write an iterative "newton's method for systems of equations" solver with it, and sympy is included in SAGE)

well, it was the article that drew my attention to sage :) so it had its use, although it is not very informative

i hope sage will grow (in combining forces with other oss projects) to be a viable matlab substitute