The Development of Sage

Courtesy Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog  Fri, 12/11/2009 - 15:53

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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