{"id":1386,"date":"2009-06-09T18:20:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T17:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2009-07-03T11:32:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T10:32:35","slug":"sage-math-40-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1386","title":{"rendered":"Sage Math 4.0 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While catching up on all of the news I missed while on Vacation, I discovered that the world&#8217;s best open-source Maths package saw a new release at the end of May.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t had chance to download it yet but the breadth and depth of new features is astonishing.\u00a0 Check out the comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/mvngu.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/03\/sage-4-0-released\/\">feature-tour here<\/a> (note to commercial software developers I have bugged in the past &#8211; when I say that I&#8217;d like a detailed change-log for your latest release, this is the kind if thing I mean).<\/p>\n<p>Scanning through the changes I note that they have dropped <a href=\"http:\/\/maxima.sourceforge.net\/\">Maxima<\/a> for core symbolic manipulation in favour of a package called <a href=\"http:\/\/pynac.sagemath.org\/\">Pynac<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Apparently, one practical upshot of this is that finding the <a href=\"http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/Determinant.html\">determinant<\/a> of symbolic matrices can be up to 2500 times faster!\u00a0 very impressive.\u00a0 I wonder how this change will affect symbolic calculus (if at all).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately,\u00a0 it looks like a full, <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.sagemath.org\/windows\">native Windows version<\/a> is still some way off which is a shame because one of my jobs this month is to prepare a load of maths applications for deployment on my University&#8217;s teaching clusters which run Windows.\u00a0 Putting SAGE next to Mathematica, MATLAB and Mathcad would have been cool and a great way to encourage undergraduate users at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/\">Manchester University<\/a> to try out the software.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, some eye candy shamelessly stolen from the SAGE website.\u00a0 The plot below demonstrates the new<strong> implicit_plot3d<\/strong> function.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/images\/random\/sphere-inside-tube.png\" alt=\"SAGE implicit plot\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While catching up on all of the news I missed while on Vacation, I discovered that the world&#8217;s best open-source Maths package saw a new release at the end of May.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t had chance to download it yet but the breadth and depth of new features is astonishing.\u00a0 Check out the comprehensive feature-tour here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-software","category-sage-interactions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-mm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}