hello and welcome to the 33rd edition of the carnival of mathematics. this carnival very nearly didnt happen since i didnt realise that no one had offered to host it until a couple of days ago i toyed with the idea of letting this edition of the carnival lapse and write something in a fortnights time but then that would break the carnivals unbroken run of 33 publications well..apart from that on...... [Show More]
regular readers of this blog will know that i have been keeping an eye on the open source mathematics package sage but have never really had time to take a closer look at it. a couple of things happened recently that made me find time to sit down and have a play with this extremely promising piece of software.
first of all i discovered that the developers of sage have been implementing a command ...... [Show More]
sage open source mathematics software can there be a viable free open source alternative to magma maple mathematica and matlab
click here for all of my del.icio.us bookmarks....... [Show More]
i love playing around with computer algebra software which is useful since supporting them is part of my day job and i also love reading well written blogs that offer little tidbits of advice and interesting examples. fairly recently the companies and groups that actually produce the software have started writing blogs.
of these some of my favorites include dougs pick of the week mathworks matlab...... [Show More]
lexik wrote an interesting post today onheres a quick excerptjosh posted a nice example of plotting a lorenz attractor in sage put this in a notebook cell be careful about newlines integer int realnumber float def lorenztyparams return params0y1y 0y0params1 y2
read the rest of this great post here...... [Show More]
maxima i aintnt dead Post Source: www.walkingrandomly.com Posted: Jan 10 2008 11:40:36
in a recent post over at the sage math blog the author recounts a conversation he had with the well known wolfram research employee eric weisstein. according to the post eric used maxima as an example of a dead open source mathematics project and was shocked when told that this was not the case.
i wondered when maxima last saw a release and was pleasantly surprised to see that the latest version ...... [Show More]
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