Sage: A Free, Open-Source Mathematics Software Program

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Sage A Free, Open-Source Mathematics Software
Program
By NPZR
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Concept

• Commercial mathematics software programs are
  often very costly (one semester of Mathematica is
  45)?
• Being closed-source makes extending functionality
  difficult
• Various free, open-source math software libraries
  already existed why not combine them?

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Beginnings of

• Started as a collaboration between math professor
  William Stein at Harvard and other professors,
  graduate students in 2004
• An open source alternative to Magma, Maple,
  Mathematica, and MATLAB
• A collection of free, open-source libraries and
  packages along with many, many lines of Python-
  and Cython-based Sage code
• First official release in 2006

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Features

• Designed for use with algebra, calculus,
  elementary to very advanced number theory,
  cryptography, commutative algebra, group theory,
  combinatorics, graph theory, exact linear
  algebra, and many others
• Graphical front-end to local (or remote) Sage web
  server via AJAX and jsMath
• Object-oriented, user-extensible Python
  environment
• Interface to third-party software such as
  Mathematica, Maple, and Magma
• Supports Linux and OS X natively Windows through
  VMWare image (with native port in the works)?

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Sage Example