Sage is a project to create a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.
The lead developer/manager William Stein has recently written Mathematical Software and Me: A Very Personal Recollection , a rather enjoyable story of his experience with mathematical software, especially Magma , and how Sage came to be.
One of the difficulties of writing broadly useful math software is the sheer size and scope of such a project....
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