Martin wrote:

In general, doing symbolic math in Python is not very beautiful.


I think this is a problem worth investigating. (Disclaimer: I do research
in pure mathematics.)


> The number of hoops you have to jump through is large, mostly because
> syntax is abused for things it was not actually meant for.
>

I don't completely agree with this diagnosis. I think there are more
serious difficulties. I'd be interested in a discussion on symbolic math in
Python sometime, but perhaps not on this list. I'd like the people who use
and develop https://www.sagemath.org/ to be involved.

-- 
Jonathan
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