{"id":3173,"date":"2011-01-27T08:43:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T07:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2016-08-23T03:25:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T02:25:06","slug":"a-month-of-math-software-january-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3173","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Math Software – January 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tend to keep an eye out for news relating to mathematical software and thought that I’d start sharing my monthly notebook with the world in case it proved to be useful to anyone else.\u00a0 If you have any math-software news that you’d like to share then feel free to contact me<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Releases – Commercial<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mathcad Prime 1.0 has been released by PTC who have almost completely rewrote it from scratch.\u00a0 Interestingly, you get a version of Mathcad 15.0 thrown in for free when you buy a copy.\u00a0 See my discussion of this new version here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MAGMA v2.17-3 has been released and the changelog is here<\/a>.\u00a0 Magma is a large software package designed for computations in algebra, number theory, algebraic geometry and algebraic combinatorics.<\/p>\n

Version 12 of the popular plotting package, Sigmaplot<\/a>, has been released.\u00a0 The press release is at www.sigmaplot.com\/aboutus\/pressroom_details.php?link=jan-2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Releases – Open Source<\/strong><\/p>\n

A bug-fix version of Matplotlib<\/a> has been released – version 1.0.1 – and the changelog is available on sourceforge<\/a>.\u00a0 Matplotlib is a 2D plotting library for Python.<\/p>\n

SAGE<\/a> 4.6.1 has been released.\u00a0 The detailed changelog is here<\/a>.\u00a0 SAGE’s mission is “Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

deal.II<\/a> version 7 has been released. deal.II<\/acronym> is a C++ program library targeted at the computational solution of partial differential equations using adaptive finite elements.<\/p>\n

JQuantlibLib<\/a> version 0.2.4 released.\u00a0 Details here<\/a>.\u00a0 JQuantLib is a BSD Licensed, open-source, comprehensive framework for quantitative finance, written in Java.<\/p>\n

Mobile Math Software<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wolfram Research have released a trio of iPhone apps called Course Assistants<\/a>.\u00a0 Essentially these are nice user interfaces to Wolfram Alpha<\/a> that make it easier to use in specific subject domains.\u00a0 The initial offering consists of Algebra, Calculus and Music Theory.\u00a0 Stephen Wolfram has blogged about the new apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MATLAB software community
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The Mathworks have launched a MATLAB-specific question and answer site called MATLAB Answers<\/a>.\u00a0 In conjunction with the venerable comp.soft-sys.matlab<\/a> newsgroup and the more recent Stack Overflow<\/a>, MATLABers now have more question and answer resources than ever.\u00a0 The Matworks have a blog article about the new service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction to Scientific Computing<\/a> by Victor Eijkhout.\u00a0 You can download it for free or get a printed copy for under 12 pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tend to keep an eye out for news relating to mathematical software and thought that I’d start sharing my monthly notebook with the world in case it proved to be useful to anyone else.\u00a0 If you have any math-software news that you’d like to share then feel free to contact me. Releases – Commercial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-software","category-month-of-math-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-Pb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173","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=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3252,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions\/3252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}