When I was in college, about six or so years ago, I used Sage for my physics classes. At some point I stopped using it because it didn't really stand up to Mathematica, which we got for free. My professor said, funnily enough, "sage has been taken over by mathematicians!" talking about how it has a lot of support for math uses but not as much for things like solving ODEs that is more of use for physicists and engineers. It's funny now seeing most of the comments here talking about crypto, which I read about in examples for Sage at the time (finite fields) whilst not knowing what it could be used for other than research.
These days I'm a computational scientist, so I end up using numeric tools anyway (numpy is my life). That said, it'd be great to have access to an open source symbolic tool for the times I need them. How has Sage improved for engineer/science types in the last few years?
These days I'm a computational scientist, so I end up using numeric tools anyway (numpy is my life). That said, it'd be great to have access to an open source symbolic tool for the times I need them. How has Sage improved for engineer/science types in the last few years?