On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Alexander Lindsay <adlin...@ncsu.edu> wrote:
> My understanding is that sage offers interfaces to both sympy and Maxima. My 
> interest is in symbolic solution of equations, often including ODEs and PDEs. 
> Between sympy and Maxima, which is the richer package for symbolic 
> computation?

I think probably Maxima.

>  Which is undergoing more active development?

Definitely Sympy by far.  No question at all.

>  I don't mean to offend developers of either package with my question. I 
> really appreciate both groups contributions to the open source community. But 
> I also want to know where I can best spend my time both in terms of use and 
> potential development. I would like to get behind one package and stick with 
> it for the long haul


Note that Sage also uses Ginac a lot.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiNaC


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