FYI, Jaap
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: A free copy of Maple or a frre maple webservre Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 12:43:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Vladimir Bondarenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: http://groups.google.com Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As far as I understand, right now Sage is (much) weaker than Maple or Mathematica. On May 11, 12:26 pm, "2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in messagenews:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [snip] > > > Sage 3.0.1 was released a few days ago > > >http://www.sagemath.org/ > > > Why not try that, rather than asking for a pirate copy of Maple? It is > > legally free. If you have $10, you can buy a book on it from Amazon > > >http://www.amazon.com/Sage-Tutorial-www-sagemath-org-William-Stein/dp... > > > There is an online Sage notebook at > > >https://www.sagenb.org/ > > > you need to sign up for an account, but it is free. > > Thank you Dave. Let me explain, more. I am interested in doing symbolic math > that is verifiable and with least effort on my part. I learned Maple in a > one semester 900 level graduate course. That took a lot of effort. With that > effort I was able to write one theoretical paper that was published in an > international nuclear journal. So my effort was not in vain. I've had a > superficial look at Sage. The problem I see, is that I would need to > duplicate the great effort that I put into a 900 level graduate course in > order to learn Sage. After I learn Sage, I would be in a position to > evaluate Sage on the basis of my understanding of Maple. It may or may not > be up to my expectations regarding verifiability. If I accepted the results > as verified then I would need to put in another great amount of effort into > writing a second theoretical paper to be submitted to an international > nuclear journal to determine if that international journal considered Sage > to be verified. In other words I would need to expend one man year of effort > to determine if my investment of time in learning Sage is or is not in vain. > I cannot see that the effort is worth the risk Do you agree? > > 2 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
