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Still nowadays? My impression is that in (pure) math it's lost most of its market share in the last few years. But maybe that's only in my circles.
by markgall 3mo ago
Still nowadays? My impression is that in (pure) math it's lost most of its market share in the last few years. But maybe that's only in my circles.
- ahnick 3mo agowhat do you or others use instead?
- markgall 3mo agoProbably the most general-purpose one is SageMath, which is open-source and basically Python with a ton of sophisticated math stuff built into it. Everything I used to do in Mathematica I now do in sage, and I don't think I'm the only one. Probably field-dependent though. Of course there is a whole constellation of more specialized things in certain fields, that has come a long way in the last 15 years. So people needing things like that no longer kludge things together in Mathematica.
- bloaf 3mo agoDoes SageMath use Sympy, or is there some other integrator built in? Last I heard Sympy was one of the worst performers, even among other open source CASs. https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/reports/summer_2024/indexchapter1.htm#x2-10001 https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/reports...
- pmarin 3mo agoIt used Maxima many years ago.
- zozbot234 3mo agoMaple would be the main proprietary alternative but yes, there's also SageMath.