SAGE<\/a>, possibly the best open-source mathematics package bar-none, has seen an upgrade to version 4.7. \u00a0The extensive change-log is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Numpy<\/a> 1.60 has been released. \u00a0Numpy is the fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python\u00a0and the list of changes from the previous\u00a0version\u00a0can be found in this discussion thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n Version 1.15 of the GSL (GNU Scientific Library)<\/a>, a free and open source numerical library for C and C++, has been released. \u00a0A copy of the change log is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Scilab<\/a>, the premier open source alternative to MATLAB, has seen a new minor upgrade with 5.3.2. \u00a0Click here<\/a> to see the differences from version 5.3.1<\/p>\n The GMP MP Bignum library<\/a> has been updated to version 5.0.2.\u00a0 GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers.\u00a0 Check out the release notes<\/a> for what’s new.<\/p>\n Commercial releases<\/strong><\/p>\n The Numerical Algorithm’s Group (NAG)<\/a> have released version 0.4 of their CUDA accelerated numerical library<\/a>.\u00a0 You can’t actually buy it yet as far as I know but academics can get their hands on it for free by signing a collaborative agreement with NAG.<\/p>\n Magma<\/a> seems to have a new release every month.\u00a0 See what’s new in version 2.17-8 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Math Software in the blogsphere<\/strong><\/p>\n Sol Lederman has started a new blog called Playing with Mathematica<\/a>. \u00a0Lots of cool little demonstrations to be found such as the multiple pendulum animation below. Gary Ernest Davis discusses Dijkstra\u2019s fusc function<\/a> – complete with Mathematica code.<\/p>\n
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